Mention393199
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| so:text | When an equation...clearly leads to two negative or imaginary roots, retraces his steps and shows by how by altering the equation, he can get a new one that has rational roots. ...Diophantus is a pure algebraist; and since algebra in his time did not recognize irrational, negative, and complex numbers, he rejected equations with such solutions. (en) |
| so:isPartOf | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Morris_Kline |
| so:description | Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times (1972) (en) |
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