George Peacock and the British origins of symbolical algebra

DOI10.1016/0315-0860(81)90003-3zbMath0458.01007OpenAlexW2068517855MaRDI QIDQ1151388

Helena M. Pycio

Publication date: 1981

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0315-0860(81)90003-3

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George Peacock and the British origins of symbolical algebra

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

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