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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900. Excerpt: ... outer rows and columns. In 1816 Mollweide collected the scattered rules into a book, De quadratis magicis, which is distinguished by its simplicity and scientific form. More modern works are due to Hugel (Ansbach, 1859), to Pessl (Amberg, 1872), who also considers a magic cylinder, and to Thompson Quarterly Journal of Mathematics, Vol. X.), by whose rules the magic square with the side pn is deduced from the square with the side n. 2. A Igebra. Towards the end of the Middle Ages the Ars major, Arte maggiore, Algebra or the Coss is opposed to the ordinary arithmetic (Ars minor). The Italians called the theory of equations either simply Algebra, like the Arabs, or Ars magna, Ars ret et census (very common after the time of Leonardo and fully settled in Regiomontanus), La regola della cosa (cosa = res, thing), Ars cossica or Regula cosae. The German algebraists of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries called it Coss, Regula Coss, Algebra, or, like the Greeks, Logistic. Vieta used the term Arithmetica speciosa, and Reymers Arithmetica analytica, giving the section treating of equations the special title von der Aequation. The method of representing equations gradually took on the modern form. Equality was generally, even by the cossists, expressed by words; it was not until the middle of the seventeenth century that a special sym Gflnther, "Ueber magische Quadrate," Crunert's Arch., Bd. 57. sich hadt a zum b, also hat sich c zum d," and the latter places 4--12--9--0 for 4j =--. 12 x Leonardo of Pisa solved equations of the second degree in identically the same way as the Arabs. Cardan recognized two roots of a quadratic equation, even when one of them was negative; but he did not regard such a root as forming an actual solution. Rudolff recognized only posit...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781150253447
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 84
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150253444
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 168 gr


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