Description Response to J. M. Dubbey's (Hist. Math., 1977, 4: 295-302) argument that George Peacock in his A treatise on algebra (1830) unconsciously assimilated Charles Babbage's ideas. “The thesis of this article is that the innovative aspects of the work of both Babbage and Peacock are extensions of ideas put forth in 1803 by Robert Woodhouse ...”
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Dubbey, J. M.;
(1977)
Babbage, Peacock, and modern algebra
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Fisch, Menachem;
(1999)
The Making of Peacock's Treatise on Algebra: A Case of Creative Indecision
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Becher, Harvey W.;
(1995)
Radicals, Whigs and conservatives: The middle and lower classes in the analytical revolution at Cambridge in the age of aristocracy
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Wilkes, M.V.;
(1990)
Herschel, Peacock, Babbage and the development of the Cambridge curriculum
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Lukas M. Verburgt;
(2016)
Duncan F. Gregory, William Walton and the Development of British Algebra: ‘Algebraical Geometry’, ‘Geometrical Algebra’, Abstraction
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Bloor, David;
(1981)
Hamilton and Peacock on the essence of algebra
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Durand, M.J.;
(1986-87)
Le travail mathématique de George Peacock (1791-1858): L'algèbre symbolique comme oeuvre de synthèse dans l'Angleterre des réformes (1830)
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Pycior, Helena M.;
(1981)
George Peacock and the British origins of symbolical algebra
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Durand-Richard, Marie-José;
(2011)
Peacock's Arithmetic: An Attempt to Reconcile Empiricism to Universality
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Durand, Marie-José;
(1990)
Genèse de l'algèbre symbolique en Angleterre: Une influence possible de John Locke
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Lambert, Kevin;
(2013)
A Natural History of Mathematics: George Peacock and the Making of English Algebra
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Gray, Jeremy;
Parshall, Karen Hunger;
(2007)
Episodes in the History of Modern Algebra (1800--1950)
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Johnson, W.;
(1995)
Contributors to improving the teaching of calculus in early 19th-century England
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Phillips, Christopher;
(2006)
Robert Woodhouse and the Evolution of Cambridge Mathematics
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Panteki, M.;
(1987)
William Wallace and the introduction of continental calculus to Britain: A letter to George Peacock
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Keller, Agathe;
(2011)
George Peacock's Arithmetic in the Changing Landscape of the History of Mathematics in India
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Desmond MacHale;
Yvonne Cohen;
(2018)
New Light on George Boole
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Ashworth, William J.;
(1996)
Memory, efficiency, and symbolic analysis: Charles Babbage, John Herschel, and the industrial mind
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Daniel C.S. Wilson;
(2018)
Babbage Among the Insurers: Big 19th-Century Data and the Public Interest
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Babbage, Charles;
(1982)
Babbage's calculating engines: A collection of papers by Babbage, Henry Prevost. With a new introduction by Allan G. Bromley
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