Book review of: V. J. Katz and K. H. Parshall, Taming the unknown. A history of algebra from antiquity to the early twentieth century.

DOI10.1016/J.HM.2016.08.004zbMATH Open1358.00048OpenAlexW2517063997MaRDI QIDQ508124FDOQ508124

Authors: Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen 

Publication date: 9 February 2017

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2016.08.004

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

External book reviews (00A17) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to history and biography (01-02) General histories, source books (01A05) History of field theory (12-03)

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