Literature after Euclid. The geometric imagination in the long Scottish Enlightenment

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Authors Matthew Wickman

Publication date 27 August 2018

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) General and miscellaneous specific topics (00A99)

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