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Symbols, Impossible Numbers, and Geometric Entanglements
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.
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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 / EAN | 9780521027403 |
|---|---|
| Auteur | Pycior, Helena M. (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) |
| Editeur | Cambridge University Press |