Can I read Review††Edited by Adrian Rice and Antoni MaletAll books, monographs, journal articles, and other publications (including films and other multisensory materials) relating to the history of mathematics are abstracted in the Abstracts Department. The Reviews Department prints extended reviews of selected publications.Materials for review, except books, should be sent to the Abstracts Editor, Sloan… on EtoBox?

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This book contains a collection of essays, ostensibly on the history of modern algebra. In fact, reflecting their origins in a workshop connected with a semester focussing on commutative algebra held at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, California, in 2003, they are almost as much about number theory and geometry as about algebra. Perhaps that is a reflection of the scope of what is nowadays called 'modern algebra'. In any event, it is undoubtedly a good thing, in that it underlines the artificiality of the sort of distinction that is embodied in seeking to classify mathematics into areas like algebra, number theory, and geometry, which merge into each other in a comfortable and comfortingly anarchic way. Although not a conference-proceedings volume in the usual sense, the book has something of that character. It contains an introduction by the editors followed by 12 technical essays by members of the meeting. These are: Eduardo L. Ortiz on Charles Babbage and French Idéologie; Sloan Evans Despeaux on Duncan Gregory's calculus of operations and the Cambridge Mathematical Journal; Olaf Neumann on divisibility theories in the early history of commutative algeb

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Author

Peter M. Neumann

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier Inc.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0315-0860)

Published

2008

Language

EN

Field

Mathematics (Physical Sciences)