Duncan F. Gregory, William Walton and the development of British algebra: `algebraical geometry', `geometrical algebra', abstraction

DOI10.1080/00033790.2015.1025844MaRDI QIDQ2787072zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Lukas M. Verburgt

Publication date 24 February 2016

Published in Annals of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2015.1025844

zbMATH Keywords

geometrical algebraalgebraical geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) History of algebraic geometry (14-03) History of commutative algebra (13-03) History of general algebraic systems (08-03)

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