Author: dist (83.102.161.---)
Date: 11-25-04 19:34
Equation appears in English in 1570 in Sir Henry Billingsley's translation of Euclid's Elements: "Many rules...of Algebra, with the equations therein vsed." It also appears in the preface to the translation, by John Dee: "That great Arithmeticall Arte of Aequation: commonly called...Algebra."
Viete defines the term equation in chapter 8 of In artem analyticem isagoge (1591), according to the DSB.
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Понятия уравнения, равенства и неравенств больше-меньше в математике появляются крайне поздно - в 17-18 вв.
Тем более поражает Чосер, в 14 веке написавший:
. . .The conclusioun of equaciouns of houses after the Astrelabie.
. . . Another maner of equaciouns of houses by the Astrelabie.
. . . and take there the evene equacions of 3 houses
. . .To knowe the verrey equacioun of the degre of the sonne yf so be that it
falle bitwene two almykanteras.
. . . and it serveth of many a necessarie conclusioun in equacions of thinges as shal be shewid
. . . But with the smale point of the forseide label shalt thou calcule thin equaciouns in the bordure of thin Astralabie, as by thin almury.
. . . tables of equaciouns of houses after the latitude of Oxenforde
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