000			01292nam a22001697a 4500
008			210701b1999 ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
020			_a9781470454777
082			_a512.009 SES-J
100			_aSesiano, Jacques
245			_aAn introduction to the history of algebra : _bsolving equations from Mesopotamian times to the Renaissance / _cJacques Sesiano
260			_aRhode Island _bAmerican Mathematical Society _c1999
300			_a174 p.
365			_aINR _b995.00.
440			_aMathematical World. _vVolume 27.
500			_aThis book does not aim to give an exhaustive survey of the history of algebra up to early modern times but merely to present some significant steps in solving equations and, wherever applicable, to link these developments to the extension of the number system. Various examples of problems, with their typical solution methods, are analyzed, and sometimes translated completely. Indeed, it is another aim of this book to ease the reader's access to modern editions of old mathematical texts, or even to the original texts; to this end, some of the problems discussed in the text have been reproduced in the appendices in their original language (Greek, Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, French, German, Provencal, and Italian) with explicative notes.
650			_aAlgebra
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