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Stedall, Jacqueline A.
Clifford Norton Student in the History of Science, The Queen's College, Oxford; Member of the Centre for the History of the Mathematical Sciences, Open University, Oxford
Print publication date: 2003 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2007 Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-852495-3 |
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doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198524953.003.0002
Abstract: This chapter discusses the development of algebra in Europe. Topics covered include the origins from which European algebra began to evolve and from which it took its name; The Liber abbaci (1202) of Leonardo of Pisa, which was the first major European mathematical text of any kind; the Ars magna, one of the great mathematical texts of all time; and Wallis' account of early algebra.
Keywords: John Wallis, algebra, Europe, Liber abbaci, Ars magna, A treatise of algebra, 
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2 How algebra was entertained and cultivated in Europe
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