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From Cardano's Great Art to Lagrange's Reflections: Filling a Gap in the History of Algebra (Heritage of European Mathematics)
From Cardano's Great Art to Lagrange's Reflections Filling a Gap in the History of Algebra - Heritage of European Mathematics
Author: Jacqueline Stedall
This book is an exploration of a claim made by Lagrange in the autumn of 1771 as he embarked upon his lengthy "Réflexions sur la resolution algébrique des equations": that there had been few advances in the algebraic solution of equations since the time of Cardano in the mid sixteenth century. That opinion has been shared by many later histori...  more »
ISBN-13: 9783037190920
ISBN-10: 3037190922
Publication Date: 3/15/2011
Pages: 236
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Publisher: European Mathematical Society
Book Type: Hardcover
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