History of Algebra

Algebra is defined by Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary as a generalization of arithmetic in which letters representing numbers are combined according to the rules of arithmetic. This is not a good definition of algebra. It would take a thick book to really explain it. In fact, to this day it is still being added to. There are always new things to be discovered about it. It has been added to by many different people over …

…and his work was studied up until the nineteenth century when non-Euclidean geometry was discovered. Algebra's long history is filled with many philosophers and mathematicians. They all contributed their part. If one of these important people would not have existed chances are algebra would have not developed the way that it did. Humans would not have as much in depth knowledge about it as they do. The history of Algebra is very complicated buy interesting.