Algebra: Sets, Symbols, and the Language of Thought (The History of Mathematics), Revised Edition

Abstract

Contemporary mathematics is often extremely abstract, and the important questions with which mathematicians concern themselves can sometimes be difficult to describe to the interested nonspecialist. Perhaps this is one reason that so many histories of mathematics give so little attention to the last 100 years of discovery—this, despite the fact that the last 100 years have probably been the most productive period in the history of mathematics. One unique feature of this six-volume History of Mathematics is that it covers a significant portion of recent mathematical history as well as the origins.