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