A01=John Derbyshire
Author_John Derbyshire
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Product details
- ISBN 9781843545705
- Weight: 313g
- Dimensions: 129 x 199mm
- Publication Date: 01 Aug 2008
- Publisher: Atlantic Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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'Here is the story of algebra.' With this deceptively simple introduction, Unknown Quantity opens, thirty-eight centuries ago, at the time of Abraham and Isaac. In stylish and accessible prose, Derbyshire shows how the invention of algebra was more than the beginning of a specific discipline of mathematics; it was also the birth of a new way of thinking that altered, forever, the ways in which we see and understand our world.
John Derbyshire is the author of Prime Obsession. His work appears frequently in National Review and The New Criterion. He lives in New York.
