The ordered regiment of the minus sign: Off-beat mathematics in Harriot's manuscripts

DOI10.1080/00033798000200161zbMath0433.01008OpenAlexW1983200883WikidataQ58245839 ScholiaQ58245839MaRDI QIDQ3870851

Rosalind Cecily. Young

Publication date: 1980

Published in: Annals of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00033798000200161

zbMATH Keywords

Harriot's manuscriptsminus signsign-rule for multiplication

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45)

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Cites Work

• Nathaniel Torporley's ‘congestor analyticus’ and Thomas Harriot's ‘de triangulis laterum rationalium’

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