Symbols, Impossible Numbers, and Geometric Entanglements

Helena M. (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) Pycior

Cambridge University Press, 1997

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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.

ISBN-13
9780521481243
ISBN-10
0521481244
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1997
Publication date
1997-05-13
Pages
344
Dimensions
235x162x28
Weight
674