The Greate Invention of Algebra Thomas Harriot's Treatise on Equations [Hardcover]

The Great Invention of Algebraprovides an insight into the work of Thomas Harriot, an innovative thinker and practitioner in several branches of the mathematical sciences, including navigation, astronomy, optics, geometry and algebra. This book focuses on one hundred and forty of these manuscript pages and concentrates on Harriot's work on the structure and solution of equations.

I.IntroductionThe Treatise on equations
II. Harriot's algebra after 1621
III. Harriot's reputation and influence
The manuscriptsOperations of arithmetic in letters
Treatise on equations
Appendix: Correlations between Harriot's manuscripts and the texts of Viete, Warner and Torporley
Bibliography

This book is a scholarly 'first effort' to establish Hariot's contributions to algebra, especially those specific to the solution and structure of polynomial equations. It is a first effort in that the translation and interpretation of the 140-page manuscript. --CHOICE, J. Johnson