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Greate Invention of Algebra Thomas Harriot's Treatise on Equations

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ISBN-10: 0198526024

ISBN-13: 9780198526025

Edition: 2003

Authors: Jacqueline Stedall

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'The Greate Invention of Algebra' casts new light on the work of Thomas Harriot (c.1560-1621), an innovative thinker and practitioner in several branches of the mathematical sciences, including navigation, astronomy, optics, geometry, and algebra. Although on his death Harriot left behind over four thousand manuscript sheets, much of his work remains unpublished.This book focuses on one hundred and forty of Harriot's manuscript pages, those concerned with the structure and solution of equations. The original material has been carefully ordered, translated, and annotated to provide the first complete edition of his work on this subject, and an extended introduction provides the reader with a…    
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Book details

List price: $230.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/4/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 334
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.92" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

Jacqueline Stedall researches and teaches history of mathematics at the University of Oxford. She has written a number of books on Early Modern European mathematics and co-edited, with Eleanor Robson, The Oxford Handbook of the history of mathematics . She is a longstanding member of the British Society for the History of Mathematics and Editor of its Bulletin .

Illustrations
Introduction
The Treatise on equations
Harriot, Torporley and Viete
Harriot's notation
The Operations of arithmetic in letters
The Treatise on equations
Harriot's algebra after 1621
The Praxis
The Corrector
The Summary
Harriot's reputation and influence
Treatise on Equations
Operations of arithmetic in letters
Treatise on equations
On solving equations in numbers
On solving equations in numbers
On solving equations in numbers
On the generation of canonical equations
On solving equations by reduction
On solving equations by reduction