Classical Algebra: Its
Nature, Origins, and Uses
I actually had fun writing this book,
and if number theory and geometry had equally uncomplicated “classical”
histories, I’d write two more matching books exploring them. But they don’t, and I don’t have enough time
left in my life to sort through them.
What I wanted to say about this subject, I said in the book, so nothing
remains except to put up links to the pages that need to be done over to remove
misprints. There were three misprints
and a small error, but one of the misprints infected the table of contents, so
here are the five pages, as corrected:
Note added
Note added
“p.96, typo, the equation for B in the Vandermonde
matrix has the cubed sign 3 misprinted.
p.104 Question 9.3, the solution p.191 is incorrect as it
stands, it would need alpha and alpha squared, the coefficients of a and b in
the second equation on p.104 v = etc, to be reversed, and similarly in the
third equation w = etc.
p.192 'To
see why, not' - should be 'note'.”