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The Greate Invention of Algebra: Thomas Harriot's Treatise on equations

Jacqueline A. Stedall

Print publication date: 2003

Print ISBN-13: 9780198526025

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2007

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198526025.001.0001

Introduction

Chapter:
(p. 3 ) Introduction
Source:
The Greate Invention of Algebra
Author(s):

Jacqueline A. Stedall

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198526025.003.0001

This introductory chapter begins with a background on Thomas Harriot. It then details Harriot's relationship with Nathaniel Toporley and their mutual interest in Viète's mathematics. Harriot's notation, Harriot's algebra after 1621, and Harriot's reputation and influence are discussed.

Keywords:   Thomas Harriot, Nathaniel Toporley, Viète, Operations of arithmetic in letters, Treatise on equations

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