François Viète's revolution in algebra

DOI10.1007/s00407-018-0208-0zbMath1395.01014OpenAlexW2800545922MaRDI QIDQ1643448

Jeffrey A. Oaks

Publication date: 19 June 2018

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-018-0208-0

zbMATH Keywords

angular sections

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40)

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