Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra by Jacob Klein

Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra

Jacob Klein

384 pages paperback 1968

2 editions

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Important study focuses on the revival and assimilation of ancient Greek mathematics in the 13th-16th centuries, via Arabic science, and the 16th-century development of symbolic algebra. This brought about the crucial change in the concept of numb...

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