Posted by Peter Nerzak

John Derbyshire’s book Unknown Quantity: A Real And Imaginary History of Algebra has received excellent reviews and has just become available as a NetLibrary eBook.
Ben Longstaff in New Scientist writes: This really is a history of algebra, but don’t be scared. The story of algebra is the story of civilisation itself: like [...]

Posted by Peter Nerzak

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