Unknown Quantity
A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra
'Derbyshire is a virtuoso at simplifying mathematics... This is more than an engaging history; it records an entire, perhaps endangered, way of thinking.' Daily Telegraph'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.'Everything a popular mathematics book should be: ge…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-84354-570-5
- EAN: 9781843545705
- Produktnummer: 17795914
- Verlag: Atlantic Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 384 S.
- Masse: H19.6 cm x B13.3 cm x D3.4 cm 316 g
- Auflage: Main
- Abbildungen: line drawings & diagrams, b/w plate section
- Gewicht: 316
Über den Autor
John Derbyshire is the author of Prime Obsession. His work appears frequently in National Review and The New Criterion. He lives in New York.
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