Symbols, impossible numbers, and geometric entanglements: british algebra through the commentaries on newton's universal arithmetick
Auteur :
Pycior, Helena M.
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521027403
Date de publication :
2 nov. 2006
Dimensions :
22,8 x 15,2 x 2,1 cm
Poids :
519 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
This is the first history of the development and reception of algebra in early modern England and Scotland. Professor Pycior analyses the struggles of a dozen British thinkers to come to terms with early modern algebra and uncovers these thinkers as a 'test-group' for the symbolic reasoning that would radically change not only mathematics but also logic, philosophy and language studies.