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The Greate Invention of Algebra Thomas Harriot's Treatise on Equations

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    9780198526025

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  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-09-04
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Jacqueline A. Stedall is the Clifford Norton Student in the History of Science, The Queen's College, Oxford and a member of the Centre for the History of the Mathematical Sciences at the Open University

Table of Contents

Illustrations xi
INTRODUCTION
I. The Treatise on equations
3(14)
Harriot, Torporley and Viète
3(4)
Harriot's notation
7(1)
The Operations of arithmetic in letters
8(3)
The Treatise on equations
11(6)
II. Harriot's algebra after 1621
17(9)
The Praxis
20(2)
The Corrector
22(2)
The Summary
24(2)
III. Harriot's reputation and influence
26(13)
TREATISE ON EQUATIONS
Operations of arithmetic in letters
39(6)
Treatise on equations
Section (a): On solving equations in numbers
45(20)
Section (b): On solving equations in numbers
65(22)
Section (c): On solving equations in numbers
87(38)
Section (d): On the generation of canonical equations
125(50)
Section (e): On solving equations by reduction
175(64)
Section (f ): On solving equations by reduction
239
APPENDIX
Correlations between Harriot's manuscripts and the texts of Viète, Warner and Torporley
291(10)
Notes 301(14)
Bibliographies 315(6)
Index 321

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