Thomas Harriots Artis Analyticae Praxis
Publication year: 2007
ISBN: 978-0-387-49512-5
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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 Harriott who took the crucial step of creating an entirely symbolic algebra. This allowed reasoning to be reduced to a quasi-mechanical manipulation of symbols.
Subject: Mathematics and Statistics, History of Mathematics, Isaac Newton, algebra equation mathematics
