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Authors Catherine Goldstein

Publication date 20 February 1997

zbMATH Keywords

Carcavide BillyFreniclesHuygensLeibnizMalebrancheOzanamWallis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to history and biography (01-02) History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History of number theory (11-03)

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