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050 00 $aQA151$b.D47 2006
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100 1 $aDerbyshire, John.
245 10 $aUnknown quantity :$ba real and imaginary history of algebra /$cJohn Derbyshire.
260 $aWashington, D.C. :$bJoseph Henry Press,$cc2006.
300 $aviii, 374 p., [8] p. of plates :$bill., ports. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aMath 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.
530 $aTable of contents at http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip065/2005037018.html
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650 0 $aAlgebra, Abstract$xHistory.
650 0 $aGeometry, Algebraic$xHistory.
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