Concepts and the Mangle of Practice Constructing Quaternions

DOI10.1007/0-387-29831-2_15MaRDI QIDQ3629628zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andrew Pickering

Publication date 2 June 2009

Published in 18 Unconventional Essays on the Nature of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-29831-2_15

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30)

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