Date of Award

6-1937

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Science (BS)

Department

Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science

First Advisor

H.P. Pettit

Abstract

The quartic equation was studied by Arab scholars after their attention to the results of their study of a cubic had not proved very significant. Abu'l-Faradsh completed the Fihrist (c, 987), and in this he refers to a problem by Abu’l-Wefa (c, 980). The Arabs were Interested in the quartic equation only as they were in the cubic, i.e., from the standpoint of the intersection of two conics.

Comments

A thesis submitted to the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science College of Liberal Arts, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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