# Unknown Quantity

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/john-derbyshire/unknown-quantity

- Authors: [John Derbyshire](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-derbyshire)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2008-08-01

## Description

‘Here is the story of algebra.’ With this deceptively simple introduction, Unknown Quantity opens, thirty-eight centuries ago, at the time of Abraham and Isaac. In stylish and accessible prose, Derbyshire shows how the invention of algebra was more than the beginning of a specific discipline of mathematics; it was also the birth of a new way of thinking that altered, forever, the ways in which we see and understand our world.

## Editions

### Unknown Quantity

- Publisher: atlantic_books
- ISBN: 978-18-4354-570-5
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2008-08-01
- Language: en_GB

### Unknown Quantity

- Publisher: Plume
- ISBN: 978-04-5228-853-9
- Pages: 400
- Published: 2007-05-29
- Language: en_US