Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1843545705
ISBN-13
9781843545705
Edition
Main
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Imprint
Atlantic Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 1st, 2008
Print length
384 Pages
Weight
316 grams
Dimensions
19.60 x 13.30 x 3.40 cms
Product Classification:
AlgebraHistory of mathematicsPopular mathematics
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A brilliant and sparklingly original account of algebra through the ages, by one of mathematics' great popularizers: 'Unknown Quantity buzzes with rivalries, frustrations and breakthroughs . . . A first-rate account that even algebraphobes will struggle to fault.' New Scientist
''Here is the story of algebra.'' With this deceptively simple introduction, Unknown Quantity opens, thirty-eight centuries ago, at the time of Abraham and Isaac. In stylish and accessible prose, Derbyshire shows how the invention of algebra was more than the beginning of a specific discipline of mathematics; it was also the birth of a new way of thinking that altered, forever, the ways in which we see and understand our world.
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