Proof in C17 Algebra

Philosophia Scientiae:43-59 (2005)
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Abstract

By the middle of the seventeenth century we that find that algebra is able to offer proofs in its own right. That is, by that time algebraic argument had achieved the status of proof. How did this transformation come about?

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Brendan Larvor
University of Hertfordshire

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