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Unknown quantity : a real and imaginary history of algebra / John Derbyshire.

by Derbyshire, John.

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Washington, D.C. : Joseph Henry Press, c2006.

Algebra -- History.

Equations -- History.

Algebra, Universal -- History.

Algebra, Abstract -- History.

Geometry, Algebraic -- History.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip065/2005037018.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11540.html

030909657X (hardback : alk. paper) :

9780309096577 (hardback : alk. paper)

viii, 374 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.

Math Primer: Numbers and Polynomials -- The Unknown Quantity -- Four Thousand Years Ago -- The Father of Algebra -- Completion and Reduction -- Math Primer: Cubic and Quartic Equations -- Commerce and Competition -- Relief for the Imagination -- Universal Arithmetic -- The Lions Claw -- Math Primer: Roots of Unity -- The Assault on the Quintic -- Math Primer: Vector Spaces and Algebras -- The Leap into the Fourth Dimension -- An Oblong Arrangement of Terms -- Victoria's Brumous Isles -- Levels of Abstraction Math Primer: Field Theory -- Pistols at Dawn -- Lady of the Rings -- Math Primer: Algebraic Geometry -- Geometry Makes a Comeback -- Algebraic This, Algebraic That -- From Universal Arithmetic to Universal Algebra.

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