Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Setting the Scene
- 2 William Oughtred and Thomas Harriot
- 3 John Collins's Campaign for a Current English Algebra Textbook
- 4 John Pell's English Edition of Rahn's Algebra and John Kersey's Algebra
- 5 The Arithmetic Formulation of Algebra in John Wallis's Treatise of Algebra
- 6 English Mathematical Thinkers Take Sides on Early Modern Algebra
- 7 The Mixed Mathematical Legacy of Newton's Universal Arithmetick
- 8 George Berkeley at the Intersection of Algebra and Philosophy
- 9 The Scottish Response to Newtonian Algebra
- 10 Algebra “Considered As the Logical Institutes of the Mathematician”
- Epilogue
- Index
5 - The Arithmetic Formulation of Algebra in John Wallis's Treatise of Algebra
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Setting the Scene
- 2 William Oughtred and Thomas Harriot
- 3 John Collins's Campaign for a Current English Algebra Textbook
- 4 John Pell's English Edition of Rahn's Algebra and John Kersey's Algebra
- 5 The Arithmetic Formulation of Algebra in John Wallis's Treatise of Algebra
- 6 English Mathematical Thinkers Take Sides on Early Modern Algebra
- 7 The Mixed Mathematical Legacy of Newton's Universal Arithmetick
- 8 George Berkeley at the Intersection of Algebra and Philosophy
- 9 The Scottish Response to Newtonian Algebra
- 10 Algebra “Considered As the Logical Institutes of the Mathematician”
- Epilogue
- Index
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- Information
- Symbols, Impossible Numbers, and Geometric EntanglementsBritish Algebra through the Commentaries on Newton's Universal Arithmetick, pp. 103 - 134Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997