The Greate Invention of Algebra: Thomas Harriot's Treatise on Equations (Mathematics)
Book Details
Author(s)
Jacqueline Stedall
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN / ASIN
0198526024
ISBN-13
9780198526025
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#3,610,095
Category
Biography & Autobiography
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Description
The Great Invention of Algebra provides an insight into the work of Thomas Harriot, an innovative thinker and practitioner in several branches of the mathematical sciences, including navigation, astronomy, optics, geometry and algebra. This book focuses on one hundred and forty of these manuscript pages and concentrates on Harriot's work on the structure and solution of equations.
