The Greate Invention of Algebra Thomas Harriot's Treatise on Equations |
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| Author:
| Stedall, Jacqueline |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-852602-5 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2003 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $335.45AUD $418.00 |
Book Description:
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Thomas Harriott was an innovative thinker who left behind several hundred manuscript sheets on navigation, astronomy, optics, geometry and algebra, most of which have never been published. This book is the first complete edition of Harriot's work on the structure and solution of equations, an important new resource for understanding the development of algebra in seventeenth-century England.
Thomas Harriott was an innovative thinker who left behind several hundred manuscript sheets on navigation, astronomy, optics, geometry and algebra, most of which have never been published. This book is the first complete edition of Harriot's work on the structure and solution of equations, an important new resource for understanding the development of algebra in seventeenth-century England.