The Greate Invention of Algebra

Jacqueline Stedall

322 pages

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Résumé

The Greate Invention of Algebra casts new light on the work of Thomas Harriot (c.1560-1621), an innovative thinker and practitioner in several branches of the mathematical sciences, including navigation, astronomy, optics, geometry, and algebra. Although on his death Harriot left behind over four thousand manuscript sheets, much of his work remains unpublished.

This book focuses on one hundred and forty of Harriot's manuscript pages, those concerned with the structure and solution of equations. The original material has been carefully ordered, translated, and annotated to provide the first complete edition of his work on this subject, and an extended introduction provides the reader with a lucid background to the work and explains its contents. Illustrations from the manuscripts provide fascinating reference material. The appendix discusses correlations between Harriot's manuscripts and the texts of his contemporaries Viète, Warner, and Torporley.

The clear and concise exposition makes this an excellent reference volume for historians of mathematics and those interested in the history of science. This is an important new resource for understanding the development of algebra in seventeenth-century England.

Readership: Historians of mathematics, students and teachers of mathematics, general readers with an interest in the history of mathematics and science

Introduction
I The Treatise on equations
II Harriot's algebra after 1621
III Harriot's reputation and influence
The manuscriptsOperations of arithmetic in letters
Treatise on equations
Appendix: Correlations between Harriot's manuscripts and the texts of Viete, Warner and Torporley
Bibliography

L'auteur - Jacqueline Stedall

Jacqueline Stedall, Clifford Norton Student in the History of Science, The Queen's College, Oxford Centre for the History of the Mathematical Sciences, Open University

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Oxford University Press
Auteur(s)	Jacqueline Stedall
Nb. de pages	322
Format	16 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	740g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780198526025
ISBN13	978-0-19-852602-5