{"product_id":"symbols-impossible-numbers-and-geometric-entanglements-british-algebra-through-the-commentaries-on-newtons-universal-arithmetick-hardback-9780521481243","title":"Symbols, Impossible Numbers, and Geometric Entanglements; British Algebra through the Commentaries on Newton's Universal Arithmetick (Hardback) 9780521481243","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSymbols, Impossible Numbers, and Geometric Entanglements\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBritish Algebra through the Commentaries on Newton's Universal Arithmetick\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis is the first history of the development and reception of algebra in early modern England and Scotland.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHelena M. Pycior (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521481243, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 13 May 1997\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e344 pages, 3 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.68 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… a useful reference work … this work represents a piece of solid scholarship.' Dennis H. Rouvray, Endeavour\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSymbols, Impossible Numbers, and Geometric Entanglements is the first history of the development and reception of algebra in early modern England and Scotland. Not primarily a technical history, this book analyses the struggles of a dozen British thinkers to come to terms with early modern algebra, its symbolic style, and negative and imaginary numbers. Professor Pycior uncovers these thinkers as a 'test-group' for the symbolic reasoning that would radically change not only mathematics but also logic, philosophy and language studies. The book furthermore shows how pedagogical and religious concerns shaped the British debate over the relative merits of algebra and geometry. Positioning algebra firmly in the Scientific Revolution and pursue Newton the algebraist, it highlights Newton's role in completing the evolution of algebra from an esoteric subject into a major focus of British mathematics. Other thinkers covered include Oughtred, Harriot, Wallis, Hobbes, Barrow, Berkeley and MacLaurin.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Setting the scene\u003cbr\u003e 2. William Oughtred and Thomas Harriot\u003cbr\u003e 3. John Collins's campaign for a current English algebra textbook\u003cbr\u003e 4. John Pell's English edition of Rahn's Algebra and John Kersey's Algebra\u003cbr\u003e 5. The arithmetic formulation of algebra in John Wallis's Treatise of Algebra\u003cbr\u003e 6. English mathematical thinkers take sides on early modern algebra\u003cbr\u003e 7. The mixed mathematical legacy of Newton's Universal Arithmetick\u003cbr\u003e 8. George Berkeley at the intersection of algebra and philosophy\u003cbr\u003e 9. The Scottish response to Newtonian algebra\u003cbr\u003e 10. Algebra 'considered as thelogical institutes of the mathematician'.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of science [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of science\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20science%20%5BPDX%5D%22\"\u003ePDX\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46007702520088,"sku":"9780521481243","price":96.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521481243i_6bfea7bc-b216-4f42-b8d9-d24daa3ad9b3.jpg?v=1691382940","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/symbols-impossible-numbers-and-geometric-entanglements-british-algebra-through-the-commentaries-on-newtons-universal-arithmetick-hardback-9780521481243","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}