Download or read book A Discourse Concerning Algebra written by Jacqueline A. Stedall and published by Mathematics. This book was released on 2002 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Discourse Concerning Algebra, provides a new and readable account of the rise of algebra in England from the Medieval period to the later years of the 17th Century.Stedall's book follows the reception and dissemination of important algebraic ideas and methods from continental Europe and the consequent revolution in the state of English mathematics in the 17th century.