algebraical

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   relating to algebra or carried out by algebraic methods; a now less common variant of algebraic

   The appendix gives an algebraical derivation of the Lorentz transformation.

2. 2
   adj

   in older mathematical use, algebraic: satisfying or defined by a polynomial relation rather than being transcendental

   The nineteenth-century author called the square root of two an algebraical number because it is a root of x^2 - 2.

Formed from algebra + -ical, beside the now-standard algebraic. Algebra entered European languages through Medieval Latin from Arabic al-jabr ("restoration"), a term in the title of al-Khwarizmi's ninth-century mathematical treatise. The ending -ical marks relation to the subject or its methods.

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