Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra
In Unknown Quantity, John Derbyshire sets out to construct an accessible survey of algebra's development over 3,000 years. With a keen sense of readers' fear of formulas, he navigates a path from Sumerian and Babylonian clay bookkeeping to the manifolds used by Andrew Wiles to solve Fermat's Last...
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In Unknown Quantity, John Derbyshire sets out to construct an accessible survey of algebra's development over 3,000 years. With a keen sense of readers' fear of formulas, he navigates a path from Sumerian and Babylonian clay bookkeeping to the manifolds used by Andrew Wiles to solve Fermat's Last Theorem.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780452288539 (0452288533)
ASIN: 452288533
Publish date: May 29th 2007
Publisher: Plume
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
I reached Chapter 12. I noticed reviews by people with stronger backgrounds in math than I have and decided to abandon ship since they too lost focus during the last quarter.
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