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Symbols, Impossible Numbers, and Geometric Entanglements: British Algebra Through the Commentaries on Newton's Universal Arithmetick Hardback - 1997

by Helena M. Pycior

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Symbols, Impossible Numbers, and Geometric Entanglements is the first history of the development and reception of algebra in early modern England and Scotland. Not primarily a technical history, this book analyzes the struggles of a dozen British thinkers to come to terms with early modern algebra, its symbolical style, and negative and imaginary numbers. Professor Pycior uncovers these thinkers as a "test-group" for the symbolic reasoning that would radically change not only mathematics but also logic, philosophy, and language studies. The book also shows how pedagogical and religious concerns shaped the British debate over the relative merits of algebra and geometry. The first book to position algebra firmly in the Scientific Revolution and pursue Newton the algebraist, it highlights Newton's role in completing the evolution of algebra from an esoteric subject into a major focus of British mathematics. Other thinkers covered include Oughtred, Harriot, Wallis, Hobbes, Barrow, Berkeley, and MacLaurin.

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  • Title Symbols, Impossible Numbers, and Geometric Entanglements: British Algebra Through the Commentaries on Newton's Universal Arithmetick
  • Author Helena M. Pycior
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 344
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • Publication date 1997-05-13
  • ISBN 9780521481243 / 0521481244
  • Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.24 x 6.33 x 1.09 in (23.47 x 16.08 x 2.77 cm)
  • Category Mathematics
  • Library of Congress subjects Newton, Isaac, Algebra - Great Britain - History - 17th
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 96025469
  • Dewey Decimal Code 512.009
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