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Ten British Mathematicians by Alexander Macfarlane

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Ten British Mathematicians
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ISBN/ASIN: B004I6D59K
Number of pages: 108

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Ten lectures on ten British mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century: George Peacock, Augustus De Morgan, Sir William Rowan Hamilton, George Boole, Arthur Cayley, William Kingdon Clifford, Henry John Stephen Smith, James Joseph Sylvester, Thomas Penyngton Kirkman, Isaac Todhunter.

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