The art and the science of British algebra: a study in the perception of mathematical truth

DOI10.1016/0315-0860(80)90028-2zbMath0452.01005OpenAlexW2028872383MaRDI QIDQ1148299

Joan L. Richards

Publication date: 1980

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0315-0860(80)90028-2

zbMATH Keywords

modern algebraA. DeMorganalgebra in EnglandG. PeacockJ. HerschelW. Whewell

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55)

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