Geometry versus analysis in early 19th-century Scotland: John Leslie, William Wallace, and Thomas Carlyle

DOI10.1006/hmat.1999.2264zbMath0963.01009OpenAlexW2005966918MaRDI QIDQ1578261

Alex D. D. Craik

Publication date: 25 June 2001

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1006/hmat.1999.2264

zbMATH Keywords

Scotland

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of mathematics at specific universities (01A73)

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