Important study focuses on the revival and assimilation of ancient Greek mathematics in the 13th-16th centuries, via Arabic science, and the 16th-century development of symbolic algebra.
Bibliography.. 1968 edition.
Includes a translation of Vieta\'s Introduction to the Analytical Art.
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.
Important study focuses on the revival and assimilation of ancient Greek mathematics in the 13th-16th centuries, via Arabic science, and the 16th-century development of symbolic algebra