Why was Wantzel overlooked for a century? The changing importance of an impossibility result
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Publication:1045847
DOI10.1016/j.hm.2009.03.001zbMath1181.01034OpenAlexW1980402370WikidataQ60017045 ScholiaQ60017045MaRDI QIDQ1045847
Publication date: 16 December 2009
Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2009.03.001
Polynomials in real and complex fields: factorization (12D05) Geometric constructions in real or complex geometry (51M15) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) Historiography (01A85)
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