Taming the unknown : history of algebra from antiquity to the early twentieth century / Victor J. Katz and Karen Hunger Parshall.
Pubblicazione:
Princeton : Princeton university press, c2014.
Descrizione fisica:
XIII, 485 p. : ill., ritr. ; 25 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Acknowledgments. 1. Prelude: what is algebra? 2. Egypt and mesopotamia 3. The ancient Greek world 4. Later Alexandrian developments 5. Algebraic thought in ancient and medieval China 6. Algebraic thought in medieval India 7. Algebraic thought in medieval Islam 8. Transmission, transplantation and diffusion in the Latin West 9. The growth of algebraic thought in sixteenth-century Europe 10. From analytic geometry to the fundamental theorem of algebra 11. Finding the roots of algebraic equations 12. Understanding polynomial equations in n unknowns 13. Understanding the properties of numbers 14. The emergence of modern algebra
