Commutativity and collinearity: a historical case study of the interconnection of mathematical ideas. I

DOI10.1080/17498430.2015.1046037MaRDI QIDQ2806370zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Adrian C. Rice, Ezra Brown

Publication date 17 May 2016

Published in BSHM Bulletin (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/17498430.2015.1046037

zbMATH Keywords

Eulersums of squaresDiophantusnormed algebrasPappusDegen

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics and mathematicians (01A99) History of number theory (11-03) History of geometry (51-03)

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