num_pages: 628
description: In 1770 one of the founders of pure mathematics Swiss mathematician Leonard Euler (17071783) published Elements of Algebra a mathematics textbook for students. This edition of Euler's classic published in 1822 is an English translation which includes notes added by Euler's tutor Johann Bernoulli and additions by Joseph-Louis Lagrange both giants in eighteenth-century mathematics as well as a short biography of Euler. Part 1 begins with elementary mathematics of determinate quantities and includes four sections on simple calculations (adding subtracting division multiplication) and then progresses to compound calculations (fractions) ratios and proportions and algebraic equations. Part 2 consists of 15 chapters on analyses of indeterminate quantities. Here Euler shows the reader several ways to solve polynomial equations up to the fourth degree. This landmark book showed students the beauty of mathematics and more significantly how to do it.
language: English
title: Elements of Algebra
publisher: Cambridge University Press