Unknown quantity : a real and imaginary history of algebra /
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Washington, D.C. :
Joseph Henry Press,
c2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Math Primer: Numbers and Polynomials
- The Unknown Quantity
- Four Thousand Years Ago
- The Father of Algebra
- Completion and Reduction
- Math Primer: Cubic and Quartic Equations
- Commerce and Competition
- Relief for the Imagination
- Universal Arithmetic
- The Lions Claw
- Math Primer: Roots of Unity
- The Assault on the Quintic
- Math Primer: Vector Spaces and Algebras
- The Leap into the Fourth Dimension
- An Oblong Arrangement of Terms
- Victoria's Brumous Isles
- Levels of Abstraction Math Primer: Field Theory
- Pistols at Dawn
- Lady of the Rings
- Math Primer: Algebraic Geometry
- Geometry Makes a Comeback
- Algebraic This, Algebraic That
- From Universal Arithmetic to Universal Algebra.
