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The Beginnings and Evolution of Algebra (Dolciani Mathematical Expositions) by I.G. Bashmakova and G.S. Smirnova is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Beginnings and Evolution of Algebra (Dolciani Mathematical Expositions) about?
How did algebra arise? What are its subject matter and methods? How have they changed in the process of its evolution? Authors I. G. Bashmakova and G. S. Smirnova answer these questions in an authoritative and compelling way in this latest addition to the Dolciani Mathematical Expositions Series. <p>There is hardly a branch of mathematics whose evolution has undergone as many surprising metamorphoses as has algebra, and these metamorphoses are described by the authors with vividness and clarity. The special merit of the book is that it corrects the widespread view that up to the 1830s the mainspring of the development of algebra was the investigation and solution of determinate algebraic equations, and especially their solution by radicals. The authors show that this viewpoint is one-sided and gives a distorted view of the evolution of algebra. Specifically, they show that the role of indeterminate equations in the evolution of algebra was no less important than that of determinate equations.</p>
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- I.G. Bashmakova and G.S. Smirnova
- Publisher
- Washington, D.C.: The Mathematical Association of America
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780883853009
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Mathematics, History, Stem