Taming the Unknown: A History of Algebra from Antiquity to the Early Twentieth Century

Victor J. Katz,Karen Hunger Parshall

Taming the Unknown: A History of Algebra from Antiquity to the Early Twentieth Century
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Country
United States
Published
16 June 2020
Pages
504
ISBN
9780691204079

Taming the Unknown: A History of Algebra from Antiquity to the Early Twentieth Century

Victor J. Katz,Karen Hunger Parshall

What is algebra? For some, it is an abstract language of x’s and y’s. For mathematics majors and professional mathematicians, it is a world of axiomatically defined constructs like groups, rings, and fields. Taming the Unknown considers how these two seemingly different types of algebra evolved and how they relate. Victor Katz and Karen Parshall ex

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