[PDF.80wx] Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra

Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra

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 | #605389 in Books |  John Derbyshire |  2007-05-29 |  2007-05-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.00 x.90 x5.40l,.72 | File type: PDF | 374 pages

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||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| An excellent general history of algebra|By Vincent Poirier|Unfortunately but inevitably John Derbyshire's "Unknown Quantity" is nowhere near as good as his previous pop math book "Prime Obsession", but in saying this I am praising the latter and not disparaging the former. "Unknown Quantity" still rates the full five stars.

"Prime Obsession" is laser focused on one p|From Publishers Weekly|This book's title is deceiving, for Derbyshire offers a very real and very entertaining survey of the development of algebra. "Real" and "imaginary" refer to types of numbers, and Derbyshire (Prime Obsession) opens with a basic prim

For curious nonmathematicians and armchair algebra buffs, John Derbyshire discovers the story behind the formulae, roots, and radicals. As he did so masterfully in Prime Obsession, Derbyshire brings the evolution of mathematical thinking to dramatic life by focusing on the key historical players. Unknown Quantity begins in the time of Abraham and Isaac and moves from Abel?s proof to the higher levels of abstraction developed by Galois through modern-day adv...

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