Author: John HeathPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The Illustrated History of Derbyshire
Author: John HeathUnknown Quantity
Author: John DerbyshirePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 030909657X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Prime Obsession taught us not to be afraid to put the math in a math book. Unknown Quantity heeds the lesson well. So grab your graphing calculators, slip out the slide rules, and buckle up! John Derbyshire is introducing us to algebra through the ages-and it promises to be just what his die-hard fans have been waiting for. "Here is the story of algebra." With this deceptively simple introduction, we begin our journey. Flanked by formulae, shadowed by roots and radicals, escorted by an expert who navigates unerringly on our behalf, we are guaranteed safe passage through even the most treacherous mathematical terrain. Our first encounter with algebraic arithmetic takes us back 38 centuries to the time of Abraham and Isaac, Jacob and Joseph, Ur and Haran, Sodom and Gomorrah. Moving deftly from Abel's proof to the higher levels of abstraction developed by Galois, we are eventually introduced to what algebraists have been focusing on during the last century. As we travel through the ages, it becomes apparent that the invention of algebra was more than the start of a specific discipline of mathematics-it was also the birth of a new way of thinking that clarified both basic numeric concepts as well as our perception of the world around us. Algebraists broke new ground when they discarded the simple search for solutions to equations and concentrated instead on abstract groups. This dramatic shift in thinking revolutionized mathematics. Written for those among us who are unencumbered by a fear of formulae, Unknown Quantity delivers on its promise to present a history of algebra. Astonishing in its bold presentation of the math and graced with narrative authority, our journey through the world of algebra is at once intellectually satisfying and pleasantly challenging.
The Illustrated History of England
Author: Thomas KeightleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
Book Description
The Popular History of England. An Illustrated History of Society and Government from the Earliest Period to Our Own Times
Author: Charles Robert KnightPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385504937
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 773
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval England
Author: Nigel SaulPublisher: Oxford Illustrated History
ISBN: 9780192893246
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
A comprehensive introduction to medieval England surveying the years from the departure of the Roman legions to the Battle of Bosworth.
The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Author: Edwin PoolePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Breconshire (Wales)
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
John Cassell's Illustrated History of England
Author: John Frederick SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
The illustrated history of Methodism
Author: Abel StevensJohn Cassell's illustrated history of England. The text, to the reign of Edward i by J.F. Smith; and from that period by W. Howitt
Author: Cassell, ltdThe Illustrated History of Methodism
Author: James Wideman LeePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Methodism
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description