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Bartel Leendert Van der Waerden
Publication date: 1954
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Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to history and biography (01-02) History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) History of Babylonian mathematics (01A17) History of Egyptian mathematics (01A16) History of mathematics of the indigenous cultures of Europe (pre-Greek, etc.) (01A15)
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