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The algebra between history and education

Victor J. Katz and Karen Hunger Parshall: Taming the unknown. History of algebra from antiquity to the early twentieth century. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014, xiii + 485 pp, $49.50 (Cloth)

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Pisano, R. The algebra between history and education. Metascience 25, 237–241 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-016-0055-z

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