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The Making of Peacocks Treatise on Algebra: A Case of Creative Indecision
Archive for History of Exact Sciences 54 (2):137-179 (1999)
Abstract
A study of the making of George Peacock's highly influential, yet disturbingly split, 1830 account of algebra as an entanglement of two separate undertakings: arithmetical and symbolical or formal.Author's Profile
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