Tactics: in search of a long-term mathematical project (1844--1896)

DOI10.1016/j.hm.2014.12.002zbMath1327.01025OpenAlexW2080548900MaRDI QIDQ891754

Caroline Ehrhardt

Publication date: 17 November 2015

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2014.12.002

zbMATH Keywords

history of algebraSylvestertacticsArthur CayleyEliakim Hastings Moorefifteen schoolgirls problemhistory of combinatoricsJames JosephThomas Penyngton Kirkman

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of geometry (51-03) History of combinatorics (05-03) History of group theory (20-03)

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