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Paperback Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra Book

ISBN: 0486272893

ISBN13: 9780486272894

Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra

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Important study focuses on the revival and assimilation of ancient Greek mathematics in the 13th-16th centuries, via Arabic science, and the 16th-century development of symbolic algebra. This brought about the crucial change in the concept of number that made possible modern science -- in which the symbolic "form" of a mathematical statement is completely inseparable from its "content" of physical meaning. Includes a translation of Vieta's Introduction...

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