Nineteenth-century mathematics in the mirror of its literature: A quantitative approach

Historia Mathematica

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 288-318

  Wagner Döbler, Roland ^a   Berg, Jan ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

19th century; Bibliography; Bibliometrics; Catalogue of Scientific Papers; History; Mathematics; Scientometrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030215258     PISSN: 03150860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/hmat.1996.0029     Document Type: Article

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