scientific article; zbMATH DE number 7370153

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Authors Rudi Penne, Stijn Dierckx, Paul Levrie

Publication date 8 July 2021

Full work available at URL http://www.nieuwarchief.nl/serie5/pdf/naw5-2020-21-1-049.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

AugandBombieriCardanocomplex numberscubic equationsde MoivreEulerHamiltonquaternionsWantzelWessel

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General histories, source books (01A05) History of number theory (11-03) Quadratic extensions (11R11) Cubic and quartic extensions (11R16) History of mathematics education (97-03)

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