02057nam a22003374a 4500001001200000003000800012006001900020007001500039008004100054010001700095020003900112040002100151035002000172050002300192082001600215100002200231245010700253260005200360300005100412504005100463505073600514533015201250650002201402650003201424650003301456650002401489650003401513655002901547710001701576856012601593ebr10120779CaPaEBRm        u        cr cn|||||||||051221s2006    dcuacf  sb    001 0deng    z  2005037018  z030909657X (hardback : alk. paper)  aCaPaEBRcCaPaEBR  a(OCoLC)6919269814aQA151b.D47 2006eb04a512.0092221 aDerbyshire, John.10aUnknown quantityh[electronic resource] :ba real and imaginary history of algebra /cJohn Derbyshire.  aWashington, D.C. :bJoseph Henry Press,cc2006.  aviii, 374 p., [8] p. of plates :bill., ports.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aMath Primer: Numbers and Polynomials -- The Unknown Quantity -- Four Thousand Years Ago -- The Father of Algebra -- Completion and Reduction -- Math Primer: Cubic and Quartic Equations -- Commerce and Competition -- Relief for the Imagination -- Universal Arithmetic -- The Lions Claw -- Math Primer: Roots of Unity -- The Assault on the Quintic --    Math Primer: Vector Spaces and Algebras -- The Leap into the Fourth Dimension -- An Oblong Arrangement of Terms -- Victoria's Brumous Isles -- Levels of Abstraction Math Primer: Field Theory -- Pistols at Dawn -- Lady of the Rings -- Math Primer: Algebraic Geometry -- Geometry Makes a Comeback -- Algebraic This, Algebraic That -- From Universal Arithmetic to Universal Algebra.  aElectronic reproduction.bPalo Alto, Calif. :cebrary,d2013.nAvailable via World Wide Web.nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 0aAlgebraxHistory. 0aAlgebra, AbstractxHistory. 0aAlgebra, UniversalxHistory. 0aEquationsxHistory. 0aGeometry, AlgebraicxHistory. 7aElectronic books.2local2 aebrary, Inc.40uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10120779zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view