Algebra found its way into modern mathematics by way of the early-modern rediscovery of Diophantus of Alexandria, who appropriated it from the Arabs. This ‘original’ algebra was conceived by the Arabic savants as an art. And yet not merely an art like no other; rather something more akin to what, in our idiom, we would call a ‘dark’ art.
A note on the metaphysical import of algebra
A note on the metaphysical import of algebra
A note on the metaphysical import of algebra
Algebra found its way into modern mathematics by way of the early-modern rediscovery of Diophantus of Alexandria, who appropriated it from the Arabs. This ‘original’ algebra was conceived by the Arabic savants as an art. And yet not merely an art like no other; rather something more akin to what, in our idiom, we would call a ‘dark’ art.