2. Draw up a glossary to the texts Algebra - branch of mathematics in which letters are used to represent basic arithmetic relations.
Classical algebra - which is concerned with solving equations, uses symbols instead of specific numbers and uses arithmetic operations to establish ways of handling symbols.
Squared -any number multiplied by itself.
Modern algebra - classical algebra by increasing its attention to the structures within mathematics.
Mathematicians consider - modern algebra to be a set of objects with rules for connecting or relating them.
Indeterminate equations – where by several unknowns are involved.
Arithmetica - is on a much higher level and gives many surprising solutions to difficult indeterminate equations.
Book III of La geometric -written by the French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes, looks much like a modern algebra text.
Analytic geometry - which reduces the solution of geometric problems to the solution of algebraic ones.
