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This is a brilliant and sparklingly original account of algebra through the ages, by one of mathematics' great popularizers: '"Unknown Quantity" buzzes with rivalries, frustrations and breakthroughs...A first-rate account that even algebraphobes will struggle to fault.' - "New Scientist".'Here is the story of algebra.' With this deceptively simple introduction, "Unknown Quantity" opens, thirty-eight centuries ago, at the time of Abraham and Isaac. In stylish and accessible prose, Derbyshire shows how the invention of algebra was more than the beginning of a specific discipline of mathematics; it was also the birth of a new way of thinking that altered, forever, the ways in which we see and understand our world.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Science: general issues Popular science

• Full title: Unknown Quantity
• Author: John Derbyshire
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384
• EAN: 9781843545705
• ID: 04260168
• Publisher: ATBO
• Weight: 316 g
• Dimensions: 196 × 133 × 34 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. August 2008

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