Book ID: CBB000320209

Abel's Proof: An Essay on the Sources and Meaning of Mathematical Unsolvability (2003)

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Pesic, Peter (Author)


MIT Press


Publication Date: 2003
Physical Details: viii + 213 pp.; illus; bib.; index
Language: English

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Review Newton, Roger G. (2004) Review of "Abel's Proof: An Essay on the Sources and Meaning of Mathematical Unsolvability". Physics in Perspective (p. 282). unapi

Review Siegmund-Schultze, Reinhard (2004) Review of "Abel's Proof: An Essay on the Sources and Meaning of Mathematical Unsolvability". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 733). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Sørensen, Henrik Kragh
Del Centina, Andrea
Stubhaug, Arild
Rosen, Michael I.
Skau, Christian
Piene, Ragni
Journals
Historia Mathematica
British Society for the History of Mathematics Bulletin
American Mathematical Monthly
NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Nordisk Matematisk Tidsskrift
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Publishers
Springer-Verlag
Olschki
Belin
Aschehoug
Concepts
Mathematics
Algebra
Algebraic geometry
Biographies
Primary literature (historical sources)
Functions (mathematics)
People
Abel, Niels Henrik
Mittag-Leffler, Gösta
Holmboe, Bernt Michael
Cauchy, Augustin Louis
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
Places
Norway
United States
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