num_pages: 336
description: The Great Invention of Algebra provides 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.
language: English
title: The Greate Invention of Algebra: Thomas Harriot's Treatise on Equations
titlecomplete: The Greate Invention of Algebra: Thomas Harriot's Treatise on Equations (Mathematics)
publisher: Oxford University Press