The greate invention of algebra: Thomas Harriot’s treatise on equations

Jacqueline Stedall9780198526025, 0198526024

The Great Invention of Algebra provides aninsight into the work of Thomas Harriot, an innovative thinker and oractitioner in several branches of the mathematical sciences, including navigation, astronomy, optics, geometry and algebra. This book focuses on one hundred and forty of these manuscript pages and concentrates on Harriot’s work on the structure and solution of equations.