01829nam a22002297a 4500 55801 55801 20200117105154.0 191022b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 978470454777 512.009 SES Sesiano, Jacques An introduction to the history of algebra : solving equations from Mesopotamian times to the Renaissance / Jacques Sesiano Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, ©2009. viii, 174 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. Algebra in Mesopotamia -- Algebra in ancient Greece -- Algebra in the Islamic world -- Algebra in medieval Europe -- Algebra in the Renaissance -- Appendix A : Mesopotamian texts in translation -- Appendix B : Greek and Latin texts -- Appendix C : Arabic texts -- Appendix D : Hebrew text -- Appendix E : French, German, Italian, and Provençal texts. This 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."--Jacket Mathematics Algebra Algebra -- History. Matematik - historia. Sesiano, Jacques MDL 0 0 ddc 0 0 MDL SNUL 2019-10-22 0 512.009 SES M030 2019-10-22 00:00:00 2019-10-22 MDL