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A treatise on universal algebra

By Whitehead A.N.

Book information

Publisher
CUP
Year
2009
ISBN
1108001688, 9781108001687
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
6 MB (6665993 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Library Collection - Mathematics
Pages
617\617
Library
Kolxo3
DPI
300
Time added
2011-07-22 07:35:22

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.

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