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Duel at Dawn: Heroes, Martyrs, and the Rise of Modern Mathematics (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine)
Duel at Dawn Heroes Martyrs and the Rise of Modern Mathematics - New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Author: Amir Alexander
In the fog of a Paris dawn in 1832, Évariste Galois, the twenty-year-old founder of modern algebra, was shot and killed in a duel. That gunshot, suggests Amir Alexander, marked the end of one era in mathematics and the beginning of another. Arguing that not even the purest mathematics can be separated from its cultural background, Alexander...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780674046610
ISBN-10: 0674046617
Publication Date: 4/30/2010
Pages: 320
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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