Unknown Quantity by John Derbyshire

Unknown Quantity

John Derbyshire

384 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history mathematics science challenging informative slow-paced
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Tells the story of algebra. This book opens, thirty-eight centuries ago, at the time of Abraham and Isaac. It 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 wa...

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