What More There Is in Early-Modern Algebra than its Literal Formalism
Document Type
Book
Publication Date
2010
Abstract
"There are two views about early-modern algebra very often endorsed (either explicitly or implicitly). The former is that in early-modern age, algebra and geometry were different branches of mathematics and provided alternative solutions for many problems. The latter is that early-modern algebra essentially resulted from the adoption of a new literal formalism. My present purpose is to question the latter. In doing that, I shall also implicitly undermine the former."
Recommended Citation
Marco Panza. What More There Is in Early-Modern Algebra than its Literal Formalism. A. Heeffer and M. Van Dyck. Philosophical Aspects of Symbolic Reasoning in Early-Modern Mathematics, College Publications, pp.193-230, 2010.
Comments
This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of a chapter accepted for publication in Albrecht Heeffer and Maarten van Dyck (Eds.), Philosophical Aspects of Symbolic Reasoning in Early Modern Mathematics. This version may not exactly replicate the final published version.