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Major section on 15-year reign of Olav II Haraldson

Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra and flexedImportant study focuses on the revival and assimilation of ancient Greek mathematics in the 13th16th centuries, via Arabic science, and the 16th century development of symbolic algebra. This brought about the crucial change in the concept of number that made possible modern science in which the symbolic "form" of a mathematical statement is completely inseparable from its "content" of physical meaning. Includes a translation of Vieta's Introduction to