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Taming the unknown: a history of algebra from antiquity to the early twentieth century

What is algebra? For some, it is an abstract language of x's and y's. For mathematics majors and professional mathematicians, it is a world of axiomatically defined constructs like groups, rings, and fields. Taming the Unknown considers how these two seemingly different types of algebra ev...

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Autores principales: Katz, Victor J, Parshall, Karen Hunger
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: Princeton University Press 2014
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/1742869