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Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra

Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra

Role: Author

Eva T.H. Brann
Role: Translator
Jacob Klein (1899 鈥� 1978) came to St. John鈥檚 College, Annapolis, in 1938, and remained a tutor there until his death.

This is an important study on the orgins of Algebra by Jacob Klein. It 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. 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.

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