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100			_aSesiano, Jacques
245			_aAn introduction to the history of algebra _b : solving equations from Mesopotamian times to the Renaissance _c/ Jacques Sesiano
260			_aProvidence, R.I. _b : American Mathematical Society, _c ©2009.
300			_aviii, 174 pages _b: illustrations _c; 26 cm.
505			_aAlgebra 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.
520			_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."--Jacket
650			_aMathematics
650			_aAlgebra
650			_aAlgebra -- History.
650			_aMatematik - historia.
700			_aSesiano, Jacques
942			_cMDL