The study of mathematical symbols and the rules for manipulating them: from solving equations for an unknown quantity, the sense the word carried in Al-Khwarizmi's ninth century work that gave algebra its name, to the abstract study of structures such as groups, rings and fields that emerged in the nineteenth century. Modern abstract algebra asks what properties a system of objects and operations must have to behave in a given way, independent of what the objects actually are. Algebraic method itself is older than the name: Babylonian scribes solved quadratic equations numerically more than a thousand years before Al-Khwarizmi, the Greek mathematician Diophantus systematized equation-solving in his third century Arithmetica (some historians credit him, not Al-Khwarizmi, as algebra's true founder, since Al-Khwarizmi's own distinct contribution was a general method rather than the first equation-solving), and the Chinese Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art, compiled by the first century CE, solved systems of linear equations by a matrix-like elimination method centuries before either. Al-Khwarizmi's systematic, general method independent of specific numbers is why the field bears his book's name rather than an earlier solver's.
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Central QuestionWhat structures of numbers, symbols and operations obey what rules, and what is really required to solve an equation for an unknown? 1 Key DebateWhether abstract algebra's drive toward ever greater generality, groups, rings, fields, categories, trades away the concrete problem-solving intuition (solving this equation, factoring this number) that gave the subject its name and its original motivation. 1 Partially Attested
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Every polynomial equation of degree n with complex coefficients has n roots in the complex numbers.
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the first to teach algebra in an elementary form and for its own sake
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Algebra is a branch of mathematics that deals with abstract systems, known as algebraic structures, and the manipulation of expressions within those systems.
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Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics which uses abstract algebraic techniques, mainly from commutative algebra, to solve geometrical problems.
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In advanced mathematics, polynomials are used to construct polynomial rings and algebraic varieties, which are central concepts in algebra and algebraic geometry.
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Algebra studies two main families of equations: polynomial equations and, among them, the special case of linear equations.
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it was named when algebra was synonymous with the theory of equations
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a major unsolved problem in algebraic geometry and complex geometry
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Abstract algebra is the name that is commonly given to the study of algebraic structures.
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Universal algebra (sometimes called general algebra) is the field of mathematics that studies algebraic structures in general, not specific types of algebraic structures.
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Budan's theorem is a theorem for bounding the number of real roots of a polynomial in an interval
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a system of equations, also known as a set of simultaneous equations or an equation system, is a finite set of equations for which common solutions are sought
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In mathematics, the Casas-Alvero conjecture is a problem about polynomials which have factors in common with their derivatives, proposed by Eduardo Casas-Alvero in 2001.
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In mathematics, the Ax-Grothendieck theorem is a result about injectivity and surjectivity of polynomials that was proved independently by James Ax and Alexander Grothendieck.
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Brahmagupta developed some algebraic notation and presents methods to solve quardatic equations.
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later on genetics where he introduced genetic algebras
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known for work in many parts of abstract algebra
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He wrote a number of influential research papers in abstract algebra.
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His main publications were on quadratic forms and algebraic groups.
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Non-commutative polynomials and cyclic algebras
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He worked mainly in abstract algebra
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taking up a study of the quaternion algebra
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Bauer's mathematical research dealt with algebra, geometric problems, spherical harmonics, the gamma function, and generalized continued fractions.
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linear associative algebra and number theory on the pure side
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his work on the theory of differential equations from the algebraic viewpoint, which he called differential algebra
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He began to work in more general algebraic structures around 1936 when he became interested in generalising the familiar elementary properties of groups into more general settings.
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known for his work on combinatorial problems in nonassociative algebra and group theory
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notable for research in abstract algebra, algebraic geometry, and functional analysis
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the first to provide a general solution for all third-degree polynomials
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van Roomen (29 September 1561-4 May 1615), also known as Adrianus Romanus, was a mathematician, professor of medicine and medical astrologer from the Duchy of Brabant in the Habsburg Netherlands who was active throughout Central Europe in the late
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Girard worked on algebra, trigonometry and arithmetic.
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Recorde virtually established the English school of mathematics and first introduced algebra into England.
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A mathematician and physicist who studied in Italy, England and Belgium, his best results are mainly in physics, especially optics, and mathematics.
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Alexander Anderson (c. 1582 in Aberdeen, c. 1620 in Paris) was a Scottish mathematician. == Life == He was born in Aberdeen, possibly in 1582, according to a print which suggests he was aged 35 in 1617.
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Claude Gaspar Bachet Sieur de Méziriac (9 October 1581-26 February 1638) was a French mathematician and poet born in Bourg-en-Bresse, at that time belonging to Duchy of Savoy.
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His Tractatus de limitibus aequationum was reprinted in England in 1807; in it, he finds upper and lower bounds for the solutions to quadratic equations and cubic equations, as simple functions of the coefficients of these equations.
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While Rolle's forte was always Diophantine analysis, his most important work was a book on the algebra of equations, called Traité d'algèbre, published in 1690.
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The Tschirnhaus transformation, by which he removed certain intermediate terms from a given algebraic equation, is well known.
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Flamsteed calles him a good algebraist.
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Unusually for the time, the textbook focused exclusively on algebra but did not cover geometry at all.
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He contributed to the theory of equations in his posthumous De reductione aequationum of 1713, in which he was the first to take literal coefficients in algebra as indifferently positive or negative.
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His book Guiljip (구일집, 九一集) contained the most advanced results of its time on setting up and solving equations, and he has been called the greatest mathematician of Joseon.
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He was acquainted with John Collins, who persuaded him to write his work on algebra.
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using a resolvent of sixth degree
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Algèbre de Viète d'une Méthode nouuelle, claire et facile
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In mathematics, he concentrated on expanding the scope of algebra in the theory of equations, and on mathematical tables.
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The symbols were used in Teutsche Algebra, published in 1659.
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Balam was the author of Algebra, or the Doctrine of composing, inferring, and resolving an Equation (1653).
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a great algebraist and a great Whig
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Thomas Baker (1625?, 1689) was an English mathematician notable for producing a solution of biquadratic equations.
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This book helped teach basic principles and rules of algebra.
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There is an unpublished manuscript by Ricci, devoted to algebra, in the library of the Mathematical Institute of Genoa.
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In 1700 a tutor taught him algebra and geometry, and in 1702 he attended Attercliffe Academy, near Sheffield, for logic and metaphysics.
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Colin Maclaurin (; Scottish Gaelic: Cailean MacLabhruinn ; February 1698-14 June 1746) was a Scottish mathematician who made important contributions to geometry and algebra.
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In the meantime, he continued his studies in the fields of algebra, geometry, probability theory and number theory, which were based on the works of Kästner, Leonhard Euler and Georg Simon Klügel.
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A System of Popular Algebra (John Taylor, London, 1826?).
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Kelil Heshbon a Hebrew language manual on algebra and trigonometry
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seven text books on algebra, geometry, mechanics and calculus
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In 1770 he published Elements of Algebra for the use of Students in Universities
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In Treatise on Algebra, Peacock attempted to give algebra a logical treatment comparable to Euclid
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No less popular was Introduction to Algebra (1782).
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was thus led from logic to algebra
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he shows the solutions of cubic and biquadratic equations using new methods
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Dissertation on the use of the negative sign in algebra
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Algebraical Problems, a schoolbook
View the Source Zhu Shijie (MacTutor)
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Zhu Shijie or Chu Shih-Chieh was a Chinese mathematician who developed methods for handling simultaneous equations.
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Stifel was the first, who had a standard method to solve quadratic equations.
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he published An Elementary Treatise on Algebra with a dedication to Gregory
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announced holding lectures on e.g. calculating on the lines of a calculating board and on algebra
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His work is a highly syncopated approach to algebra
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Bavio se teorijom skupova, matematičkom logikom, apstraktnom algebrom
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He is best known for his work in differential algebra and especially differential Galois theory.
View the Source Bruno Buchberger (Wikipedia)
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Beyond the applications of Gröbner bases in computational algebra
View the Source Latimer-MacDuffee theorem (Wikipedia)
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The Latimer-MacDuffee theorem is a theorem in abstract algebra, a branch of mathematics.
View the Source Leopold Gegenbauer (MacTutor)
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he was chiefly an algebraist
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George Chrystal is best remembered today for Algebra: a two volume work which was completed by 1889.
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Linear associative algebras
View the Source Ernst Jacobsthal (MacTutor)
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Ernst Jacobsthal was a German mathematician who wrote papers in such diverse fields as algebra, analysis, function theory and number theory.
View the Source Symmetric group (Wikipedia)
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In abstract algebra, the symmetric group defined over any set is the group whose elements are all the bijections from the set to i
View the Source Difference of two squares (Wikipedia)
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In elementary algebra, a difference of two squares is one squared number (the number multiplied by itself) subtracted from another
View the Source Completing the Square (Wikipedia)
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In elementary algebra, completing the square is a technique for converting a quadratic polynomial of the form a x 2 + b x + c +b
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In mathematics, more specifically in abstract algebra, the commutator subgroup or derived subgroup of a group is the subgroup gene
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In elementary algebra, the quadratic formula is a closed-form expression describing the solutions of a quadratic equation.
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Distributive Property (Wikipedia)
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z ) = x ⋅ y + x ⋅ z is always true in elementary algebra.
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Bring Radical (Wikipedia)
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In algebra, the Bring radical or ultraradical of a real number a is the unique real root of the polynomial x 5 + x + a .
View the Source Consistent and Inconsistent Equations (Wikipedia)
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In mathematics and particularly in algebra, a system of equations (either linear or nonlinear) is called consistent if there is at
View the Source Algebraic Element (Wikipedia)
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In mathematics, if A is an associative algebra over K, then an element a of A is an algebraic element over K, or just algebraic ov
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In mathematics, more specifically in multilinear algebra, an alternating multilinear map is a multilinear map with all arguments b
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In algebra, a sextic (or hexic) polynomial is a polynomial of degree six.
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Pierce-Birkhoff conjecture (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia: Sedenion
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In abstract algebra, the sedenions form a 16-dimensional noncommutative and nonassociative algebra over the real numbers, usually
View the Source Sylvester's law of inertia, Wikipedia
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Sylvester's law of inertia is a theorem in matrix algebra about certain properties of the coefficient matrix of a real quadratic f
View the Source Ado's Theorem (Wikipedia)
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In abstract algebra, Ado's theorem is a theorem characterizing finite-dimensional Lie algebras.
View the Source Gamas's theorem - Wikipedia
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Gamas's theorem is a result in multilinear algebra which states the necessary and sufficient conditions for a tensor symmetrized b
View the Source Binomial Theorem (Wikipedia)
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In elementary algebra, the binomial theorem (or binomial expansion) describes the algebraic expansion of powers of a binomial.
View the Source Amitsur-Levitzki theorem (Wikipedia)
Emil Artin (Wikipedia)
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modern abstract algebra
View the Source Leopold Kronecker (Wikipedia)
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abstract algebra
View the Source Sophus Lie (Wikipedia)
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development of algebra
View the Source Field (mathematics) (Wikipedia)
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Fields are fundamental algebraic structures that are widely used in algebra, number theory, and many other areas of mathematics.
View the Source Wikipedia: Erland Samuel Bring
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This work describes Bring's contribution to the algebraic solution of equations.
View the Source Wikipedia: Francesco Brioschi
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Brioschi published in Italy various algebraic theories
View the Source Wikipedia: François Viète
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whose work on new algebra was an important step towards modern algebra
View the Source Wikipedia: François Budan de Boislaurent
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Nouvelle méthode pour la résolution des équations numériques
View the Source Wikipedia: John T. Graves
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He was a friend of William Rowan Hamilton, and is credited both with inspiring Hamilton to discover the quaternions in October 1843 and then discovering their generalization the octonions himself (he called them octaves) later that same year.
View the Source Wikipedia: Joseph Wedderburn
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A significant algebraist, he proved that a finite division algebra is a field (Wedderburn's little theorem), and part of the Artin-Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras.
View the Source Wikipedia: Charles Hermite
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Charles Hermite (French: [ʃaʁl ɛʁmit]; 24 December 1822-14 January 1901) was a French mathematician who studied analysis, number theory, and algebra.
View the Source Wikipedia: Frank Morley
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Frank Morley (September 9, 1860, October 17, 1937) was a leading mathematician, known mostly for his teaching and research in the fields of algebra and geometry.
View the Source Wikipedia: Étienne Bézout
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Bézout is also acknowledged for his work on algebra, despite being much occupied with his teaching duties, leaving him with relatively little time for algebra research.
View the Source Wikipedia: Alexandru Froda
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Alexandru Froda (July 16, 1894, October 7, 1973) was a Romanian mathematician with contributions in the field of mathematical analysis, algebra, number theory and rational mechanics.
View the Source Wikipedia: Arthur Cayley
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Arthur Cayley (; 16 August 1821-26 January 1895) was an English mathematician who worked mostly on algebra.
View the Source William Rowan Hamilton (Wikipedia)
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Sir William Rowan Hamilton (4 August 1805-2 September 1865) was an Irish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer who made numerous major contributions to algebra, classical mechanics, and optics.
View the Source Wolfram MathWorld: Vieta's Formulas
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Algebra Polynomials
View the Source Wolfram MathWorld: Scalar Field
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Algebra Scalar Algebra
View the Source Wolfram MathWorld: Linear Equation
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Algebra Algebraic Equations
View the Source Wolfram MathWorld: Vector Projection
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Algebra Vector Algebra
View the Source Wolfram MathWorld: Algebraic Equation
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Algebra Algebraic Equations
View the Source Wolfram MathWorld: Carlyle Circle
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Algebra General Algebra
View the Source Wolfram MathWorld: Jerk
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Algebra Vector Algebra
View the Source Wolfram MathWorld: Faulhaber's Formula
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Algebra Sums
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Algebra Forms
View the Source Wolfram MathWorld: Quartic Equation
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Algebra Algebraic Equations
View the Source Wolfram MathWorld: Quadratic Equation
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Algebra Algebraic Equations
View the Source Wolfram MathWorld: Octonion
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Algebra Quaternions and Clifford Algebras
View the Source Wikipedia: Octonion
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In mathematics, the octonions are a normed division algebra over the real numbers, a kind of hypercomplex
View the Source Complex conjugate root theorem - Wikipedia
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of P. It follows from this (and the fundamental theorem of algebra) that, if the degree of a real polynomial is
View the Source Wikipedia: Quaternion
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In mathematics, the quaternions form a number system similar to the complex numbers, with the usual arithmetical operations of addition
View the Source Eisenstein's criterion - Wikipedia
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Eisenstein's criterion gives a sufficient condition for a polynomial with integer coefficients to be irreducible over the rational numbers -
View the Source Descartes' Rule of Signs (Wikipedia)
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by René Descartes in his La Géométrie, counts the roots of a polynomial by examining sign changes in its coefficients.
View the Source Vincent's theorem - Wikipedia
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Joseph Hidulphe Vincent-is a theorem that isolates the real roots of polynomials with rational coefficients. Even though Vincent's
View the Source Candido's identity (Wikipedia)
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after the Italian mathematician Giacomo Candido, is an identity for real numbers. It states that for two arbitrary real numbers
View the Source Cohn's irreducibility criterion (Wikipedia)
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polynomial to be irreducible
View the Source Multinomial theorem (Wikipedia)
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In mathematics, the multinomial theorem describes how to expand a power of a sum in terms of powers of the terms in that sum.
View the Source Quintic Function (Wikipedia)
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In mathematics, a quintic function is a function of the form g ( x ) = a x 5 + b
View the Source Degree of a Polynomial (Wikipedia)
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In mathematics, the degree of a polynomial is the highest of the degrees of the polynomial's
View the Source Identity
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In mathematics, an identity is an equality relating one mathematical expression A to another mathematical expression B, such that A and B
View the Source MacTutor biography of Max Zorn, St Andrews
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a thesis on alternative algebras
View the Source MacTutor biography of Gottfried Köthe, St Andrews
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who worked in abstract algebra, functional analysis and topological vector spaces
View the Source MacTutor biography of Hyman Bass, St Andrews
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Hyman Bass is an American mathematician, known for work in algebra and in mathematics education.
View the Source Wolfram MathWorld: Sendov's Conjecture -- from Wolfram MathWorld
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Algebra Polynomials
View the Source Alexander Ostrowski, Biography (MacTutor History of Mathematics)
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Alexander Ostrowski was a Ukrainian-born mathematician who worked on a wide variety of topics in both analysis and algebra.
View the Source Christoph Rudolff, Biography (MacTutor History of Mathematics)
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Christoff Rudolff was a German mathematician whose book Coss is the first German algebra book.
View the Source Ernst Witt, Biography (MacTutor History of Mathematics)
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Ernst Witt was a German mathematician and a leading algebraist. He proved important results on Lie algebras.
View the Source Heinrich Martin Weber, Biography (MacTutor History of Mathematics)
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Heinrich Weber was a German mathematician whose main work was in algebra, number theory, analysis and applications of analysis to mathematical physics.
View the Source Garrett Birkhoff, Biography (MacTutor History of Mathematics)
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Garrett Birkhoff was an American mathematician best known for the algebra book he wrote with Saunders Mac Lane.
View the Source Gerolamo Cardano, Biography (MacTutor History of Mathematics)
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Girolamo Cardan or Cardano was an Italian doctor and mathematician who is famed for his work Ars Magna which was the first Latin treatise devoted solely to algebra. In it he gave the methods of solution of the cubic and quartic equations which he had learnt from Tartaglia.
View the Source Lodovico Ferrari, Biography (MacTutor History of Mathematics)
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Ferrari was an Italian scholar who started as Cardan's secretary and went on to devise the solution of the quartic equation.
View the Source Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia, Biography (MacTutor History of Mathematics)
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Tartaglia was an Italian mathematician who was famed for his algebraic solution of cubic equations which was eventually published in Cardan's Ars Magna .
View the Source Rafael Bombelli, Biography (MacTutor History of Mathematics)
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Rafael Bombelli was an Italian mathematician who wrote an influential algebra text and made free use of both negative numbers and complex numbers.
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