What is algebra and what has it been in history?

DOI10.1007/BF00328154zbMath0357.01003OpenAlexW2020311576MaRDI QIDQ1237701

H. Dr. Freudenthal

Publication date: 1976

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00328154

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of number theory (11-03) History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20)

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