The making of peacock's treatise on algebra: A case of creative indecision

Archive for History of Exact Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 137-179

  Fisch, Menachem ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 0142260246     PISSN: 00039519     EISSN: 14320657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004070050037     Document Type: Article

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