The Algebraist

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Modern history Italian mathematician Girolamo Cardano published the solutions to the cubic and quartic equations in his 1545 book Ars magna. You always get the sense that part of the author is keen to deliver hardcore reality of the sort that Orwell's 1984 dishes out, but he's too busy sending up exactly that kind of emotional sincerity through his pantomime villains (one a man, another a state). It lay, slow-tumbling, and watched helplessly as the probing beams flickered across the pitted, barren motes far away, and knew its fate was settled. If a group is also commutative – that is, for any two members a and b of S, a ∗ b is identical to b ∗ a – then the group is said to be abelian.

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In the context where algebra is identified with the theory of equations, the Greek mathematician Diophantus has traditionally been known as the "father of algebra" and in the context where it is identified with rules for manipulating and solving equations, Persian mathematician al-Khwarizmi is regarded as "the father of algebra". Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, The Wasp Factory, in 198

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Both fleets are forced to travel at sub light speeds, leaving the inhabitants of the Ulubis system anxiously wondering which will arrive first.François Viète's work on new algebra at the close of the 16th century was an important step towards modern algebra. This paper, On the total curvature of knots, was accepted for publication in 1948 when Milnor was only seventeen years old. For those not acquainted with large-scale SF, The Algebraist is a perfect place to have your mind blown to smithereens with all that its vast canvas delivers.

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A curve in space is an example of a one-dimensional manifold; the surfaces of a sphere and of a doughnut are examples of two-dimensional manifolds. If the kind of science fiction dubbed "wide-screen baroque" by Brian Aldiss has a reigning grandmaster, it's probably Iain M Banks.J Stasheff, Milnor's work from the perspective of algebraic topology, in Topological methods in modern mathematics (Houston, TX, 1993), 5- 22. Once it had thrown a still-alive leech up and out of the tank and nearly hit the Archimandrite with it; Luseferous had chased the injured leech round the chamber with a shear-sword, cleaving deep slivers out of the dark red granite floor as he hacked and sliced at the creature.