Symbols, impossible numbers, and geometric entanglements : (Record no. 522362)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780511895470 (ebook) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| Cancelled/invalid ISBN | 9780521481243 (hardback) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| Cancelled/invalid ISBN | 9780521027403 (paperback) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | UkCbUP |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Description conventions | rda |
| Transcribing agency | UkCbUP |
| 043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE | |
| Geographic area code | e-uk--- |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | QA151 |
| Item number | .P94 1997 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 512/.00941/09032 |
| Edition number | 20 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Pycior, Helena M. |
| Fuller form of name | (Helena Mary), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1947- |
| Relator term | author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Symbols, impossible numbers, and geometric entanglements : |
| Remainder of title | British algebra through the commentaries on Newton's Universal arithmetick / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Helena M. Pycior. |
| 246 3# - VARYING FORM OF TITLE | |
| Title proper/short title | Symbols, Impossible Numbers, & Geometric Entanglements |
| 264 #1 - Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice (R) | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture (R) | Cambridge : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer (R) | Cambridge University Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 1997. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (xi, 328 pages) : |
| Other physical details | digital, PDF file(s). |
| 336 ## - Content Type (R) | |
| Content type term (R) | text |
| Content type code (R) | txt |
| Source (NR) | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - Media Type (R) | |
| Media type term (R) | computer |
| Media type code (R) | c |
| Source (NR) | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - Carrier Type (R) | |
| Carrier type term (R) | online resource |
| Carrier type code (R) | cr |
| Source (NR) | rdacarrier |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| 505 00 - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Miscellaneous information | 1. |
| Title | Setting the Scene: The Foundations of Early Modern Algebra -- |
| Miscellaneous information | 2. |
| Title | William Oughtred and Thomas Harriot: "Inciting, Assisting, and Instructing Others" in the Analytic Art -- |
| Miscellaneous information | 3. |
| Title | John Collins's Campaign for a Current English Algebra Textbook: The 1660s and 1670s -- |
| Miscellaneous information | 4. |
| Title | John Pell's English Edition of Rahn's Algebra and John Kersey's Algebra -- |
| Miscellaneous information | 5. |
| Title | The Arithmetic Formulation of Algebra in John Wallis's Treatise of Algebra -- |
| Miscellaneous information | 6. |
| Title | English Mathematical Thinkers Take Sides on Early Modern Algebra: Thomas Hobbes and Isaac Barrow against John Wallis -- |
| Miscellaneous information | 7. |
| Title | The Mixed Mathematical Legacy of Newton's Universal Arithmetick -- |
| Miscellaneous information | 8. |
| Title | George Berkeley at the Intersection of Algebra and Philosophy -- |
| Miscellaneous information | 9. |
| Title | The Scottish Response to Newtonian Algebra. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Symbols, Impossible Numbers, and Geometric Entanglements is the first history of the development and reception of algebra in early modern England and Scotland. Not primarily a technical history, this book analyses the struggles of a dozen British thinkers to come to terms with early modern algebra, its symbolic style, and negative and imaginary numbers. Professor Pycior uncovers these thinkers as a 'test-group' for the symbolic reasoning that would radically change not only mathematics but also logic, philosophy and language studies. The book furthermore shows how pedagogical and religious concerns shaped the British debate over the relative merits of algebra and geometry. Positioning algebra firmly in the Scientific Revolution and pursue Newton the algebraist, it highlights Newton's role in completing the evolution of algebra from an esoteric subject into a major focus of British mathematics. Other thinkers covered include Oughtred, Harriot, Wallis, Hobbes, Barrow, Berkeley and MacLaurin. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Newton, Isaac, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1642-1727. |
| Title of a work | Arithmetica universalis. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Algebra |
| Geographic subdivision | Great Britain |
| General subdivision | History |
| Chronological subdivision | 17th century. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Algebra |
| Geographic subdivision | Great Britain |
| General subdivision | History |
| Chronological subdivision | 18th century. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Display text | Print version: |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780521481243 |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511895470">https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511895470</a> |
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