Unknown Quantity: A Real And Imagined History Of Algebra by John Derbyshire

Unknown Quantity: A Real And Imagined History Of Algebra

John Derbyshire

400 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history mathematics science informative slow-paced
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For curious nonmathematicians and armchair algebra buffs, John Derbyshire discovers the story behind the formulae, roots, and radicals. As he did so masterfully in Prime Obsession, Derbyshire brings the evolution of mathematical thinking to dramat...

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