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100 1 $aHarriot, Thomas,$d1560-1621.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50026495
240 10 $aArtis analyticae praxis.$lEnglish$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2007059273
245 10 $aThomas Harriot's Artis analyticae praxis :$ban English translation with commentary /$cMuriel Seltman, Robert Goulding, editors and translators.
260 $aNew York, N.Y. ;$a[London] :$bSpringer,$c[2007], ©2007.
263 $a200707
300 $aviii, 299 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aSources and studies in the history of mathematics and physical sciences
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 1 $a"The present work is the first ever English translation of the original text of Thomas Harriot's Artis Analyticae Praxis, first published in 1631 in Latin. Thomas Harriot's Praxis is an essential work in the history of algebra. Even though Harriot's contemporary, Viete, was among the first to use literal symbols to stand for known and unknown quantities, it was Harriot who took the crucial step of creating an entirely symbolic algebra. This allowed reasoning to be reduced to a quasi-mechanical manipulation of symbols. Although Harriot's algebra was still limited in scope (he insisted, for example, on strict homogeneity, so only terms of the same powers could be added or equated to one another), it is recognizably modern." "While Harriot's book was highly influential in the development of analysis in England before Newton, it has recently become clear that the posthumously published Praxis contains only an incomplete account of Harriet's achievement: his editor substantially rearranged the work before publishing it, and omitted sections that were apparently beyond comprehension, such as negative and complex roots of equations." "The commentary included with this translation relates the contents of the Praxis to the corresponding pages in his manuscript papers, which enables much of Harriet's most novel and advanced mathematics to be explored. This publication will become an important contribution to the history of mathematics, and it will provide the basis for a reassessment of the development of algebra."--BOOK JACKET.
546 $aTranslated from the Latin.
600 10 $aHarriot, Thomas,$d1560-1621.$tArtis analyticae praxis.
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700 1 $aSeltman, Muriel.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84018539
700 1 $aGoulding, Robert.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2007082809
830 0 $aSources and studies in the history of mathematics and physical sciences.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n99050535
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