Early criticism of the symbolical approach to algebra

DOI10.1016/0315-0860(82)90105-7zbMath0501.01007OpenAlexW2079254518MaRDI QIDQ1172047

Helena M. Pycior

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0315-0860(82)90105-7

zbMATH Keywords

symbolic algebraG. PeacockW. WhewellA. deMorganPh. Kelland

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of general algebraic systems (08-03)

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• George Peacock and the British origins of symbolical algebra
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