Episodes in the history of modern algebra (1800-1950) / Jeremy J. Gray and Karen Hunger Parshall, editors.
Algebra, as a subdiscipline of mathematics, arguably has a history going back some 4000 years to ancient Mesopotamia. The history, however, of what is recognized today as high school algebra is much shorter, extending back to the sixteenth century, while the history of what practicing mathematicians...
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