In Our Time

RENAISSANCE MATHS
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Renaissance mathematics

Further Reading

Jackie Stedall; A Discourse Concerning Algebra: English algebra to 1685

James Gleik; Isaac Newton (4th Estate 2003)

Robert Kaplan; The Nothing that Is (OUP 1999)

Robert Kaplan; The Art of the Infinite (OUP 2003)