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This is the first history of the development and reception of algebra in early modern England and Scotland. This book analyses the struggles of 12 British thinkers to come to terms with early modern algebra, its style, and negative and imaginary numbers.Pycior, Helena M. is the author of 'Symbols, Impossible Numbers, And Geometric Entanglements British Algebra Through the Commentaries on Newton's Universal Arithmetick', published 2006 under ISBN 9780521027403 and ISBN 0521027403.
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