Unknown Quantity A Real And Imagined History Of Algebra

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  • Engels
  • Hardcover
  • 9781843545699
  • 12 april 2007
  • 382 pagina's
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John Derbyshire

JOHN DERBYSHIRE is a contributing editor for National Review, where he writes a regular column. He also contributes regularly to National Review Online and writes frequently for a number of other publications, including the Wall Street Journal, the American Conservative, the Washington Examiner, and the New Criterion. In addition to his opinion journalism, he writes on the subject of mathematics and is the author of the books Prime Obsession and Unknown Quantity. His novel, Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream, was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. A native of England, Derbyshire now lives on Long Island, New York, with his wife and two children.

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In this elegantly-written and engaging book, John Derbyshire gives expert form to the beauty and mystery of the most abstract of mathematical disciplines: algebra. Derbyshire brings to life the cast of extraordinary and bold historical characters each of whom, though the centuries and across the world, played a role in its genesis: the ancient father of algebra, Diophantus; the dashing, romantic Evariste Galois, who developed algebra to ever higher levels of abstraction, fell in unrequited love and died, age twenty, in a pistol-duel at dawn; and the dazzling and tragic Hypatia, probably the only mathematician in history to be skinned alive by an angry mob. Far from being dry or irrelevant pursuits, these adventures in algebra heralded nothing less than a revolution. Algebraists not only gave birth to a new way of thinking about and understand basic numeric concepts, but they also changed forever our very perception of the world around us.

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Hardcover
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12 april 2007
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382
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John Derbyshire
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Joseph Henry Press
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Atlantic Books

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Originele titel
The Unknown Quantity: A Brief History of Algebra

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156 mm
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37 mm
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234 mm
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756 g

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