A Treatise on Universal Algebra: With Applications by Alfred North Whitehead
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Over a decade before the first edition of Principia Mathematica was published in three volumes between 1910 and 1913, A Treatise on Universal Algebra was published in 1898. It was also intended to be the first of a series of volumes. However, future work which was to cover quaternions, matrices and linear algebra was never published. This large volume that did come forth, which Cambridge University Press has reprinted, covers general principles focusing on Boolean algebra, symbolic logic, algebraic manifolds, and the exterior algebra (Grassmann algebra).
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