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    Unknown quantity : a real and imaginary history of algebra / by Derbyshire, John

    Published 2006
    Subjects: “…Algebra History.…”
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    A historian looks back the calculus as algebra and selected writings / by Grabiner, Judith V.

    Published 2010
    Table of Contents: “…The calculus as algebra --…”
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    Who gave you the epsilon? and other tales of mathematical history /

    Published 2009
    Table of Contents: “…The roots of commutative algebra in algebraic number theory /…”
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    An episodic history of mathematics mathematical culture through problem solving / by Krantz, Steven G. (Steven George), 1951-

    Published 2010
    Table of Contents: “…The ancient Greeks and the foundations of mathematics -- Zeno's paradox and the concept of limit -- The mystical mathematics of Hypatia -- The Islamic world and the development of algebra -- Cardano, Abel, Galois, and the solving of equations -- René Descartes and the idea of coordinates -- Pierre de Fermat and the invention of differential calculus -- The great Isaac Newton -- The complex numbers and the fundamental theorem of algebra -- Carl Friedrich Gauss: the prince of mathematics -- Sophie Germain and the attack on Fermat's last problem -- Cauchy and the foundations of analysis -- The prime numbers -- Dirichlet and how to count -- Bernhard Riemann and the geometry of surfaces -- Georg Cantor and the orders of infinity -- The number systems -- Henri Poincaré, child phenomenon -- Sonya Kovalevskaya and the mathematics of mechanics -- Emmy Noether and algebra -- Methods of proof -- Alan Turing and cryptography.…”
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    X marks the spot : the lost inheritance of mathematics / by Garfinkle, David, 1958-, Garfinkle, Richard

    Published 2021
    Table of Contents: “…-- Sticks and stones -- Abstraction, mistrust, and laziness -- Algebra, geometry, analysis : the mathematical mindsets -- Analytic geometry -- Calculus : motion and size -- The language of motion -- Sound, notes, and harmonics -- Probability and statistics -- Other geometries : not so straight, these sticks -- Algebra and the rise of abstraction -- The smith and the knight -- Building the theoretical universe -- Computers -- The theoretical universe of modern physics : toolkit included -- Math education & math in education.…”
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    Material events Paul de Man and the afterlife of theory /

    Published 2001
    Table of Contents: “…Hillis Miller, and Barbara Cohen -- "As the poets do it": on the material sublime / Andrzej Warminski -- Art and ideology: Althusser and de Man / Michael Sprinker -- Algebra and allegory: nonclassical epistemology, quantum theory, and the work of Paul de Man / Arkady Plotnitsky -- Phenomenality and materiality in Cézanne / T.J. …”
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    Sherlock Holmes in Babylon and other tales of mathematical history /

    Published 2004
    Table of Contents: “…Nordgaard -- Reading Bombelli's x-purgated algebra / Abraham Arcavi and Maxim Bruckheimer -- The first work on mathematics printed in the New World / David Eugene Smith -- The seventeenth century. …”
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