# Unknown Quantity

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- Book: [Unknown Quantity](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-derbyshire/unknown-quantity) ([Unknown Quantity.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-derbyshire/unknown-quantity.md))
- Authors: [John Derbyshire](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-derbyshire)
- Publisher: atlantic_books
- ISBN: 978-18-4354-570-5
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2008-08-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## 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.