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307 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780674061743
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 15 October 2011
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In the fog of a Paris dawn in 1832, variste Galois, the 20-year-old founder of modern algebra, was shot and killed in a duel. That gunshot, suggests Amir Alexander, marked the end of one era in mathematics and the beginning of another. Arguing tha...
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307 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780674061743
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 15 October 2011
Description
In the fog of a Paris dawn in 1832, variste Galois, the 20-year-old founder of modern algebra, was shot and killed in a duel. That gunshot, suggests Amir Alexander, marked the end of one era in mathematics and the beginning of another. Arguing tha...
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