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384 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781843545705
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Publication date: 02 May 2006
Description
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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384 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781843545705
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Publication date: 02 May 2006
Description
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...