The development of symbolic algebra as a fundamental change in the concept of number.
Historians of science have usually assumed that the mathematicians of the Renaissance took up where prior mathematicians had left off. This important work argues that during the sixteenth century, a crucial change in the concept of number took place which distinguishes ancient and modern mathematics once and for all.The author regards Francois Vieta as "the true founder of modern mathematics" and demonstrates that to this development of symbolic algebra corresponds a fundamental change in the concept of the number.
- ISBN10 0486319814
- ISBN13 9780486319810
- Publish Date 22 April 2013 (first published 22 June 1968)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Dover Publications
- Format eBook
- Pages 384
- Language English