I wrote a few weeks ago about the transmission of the knowledge of Hindu and Arabic mathematicians to Europe in the 12-1300′s and the translation of Fibonacci’s Liber Abaci into Italian dialect in the 1400′s. Over the next 2-300 years, what is generally known as classical algebra began to take shape in Europe. The symbols [...]
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History of Algebra
Posted in Math History, Mathematical Notation on November 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »