| A Treatise on Universal Algebra: With Applications Contributor(s): Whitehead, Alfred North (Author) |
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ISBN: 0511693176 ISBN-13: 9780511693175 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $72.25 Product Type: Open Ebook Published: August 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | History & Philosophy - Mathematics | Algebra - General |
| Dewey: 512 |
| Series: Cambridge Library Collection: Mathematics (Audio) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) was equally celebrated as a mathematician, a philosopher and a physicist. He collaborated with his former student Bertrand Russell on the first edition of Principia Mathematica (published in three volumes between 1910 and 1913), and after several years teaching and writing on physics and the philosophy of science at University College London and Imperial College, was invited to Harvard to teach philosophy and the theory of education. A Treatise on Universal Algebra was published in 1898, and was intended to be the first of two volumes, though the second (which was to cover quaternions, matrices and the general theory of linear algebras) was never published. This book discusses the general principles of the subject and covers the topics of the algebra of symbolic logic and of Grassmann's calculus of extension. |