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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/9780198524953.003.0008
Abstract: This final chapter looks at some of the reactions to A treatise of algebra immediately after its publication and since, and draws together a few observations on Wallis' perspective on algebra and on history. In general Wallis' history drew more attention than his mathematics. That there were a number of criticisms in this respect can be inferred from revisions he made when the book was translated into Latin in 1693.
Keywords: John Wallis, A treatise of algebra, algebra, mathematics, 
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