The Invariant Twins

Metascience 17 (1):27-32 (2008)
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Two recently published scholarly biographies of leading nineteenth-century British mathematicians, pioneers in abstract algebra and personal friends, provide an informed comparison of their lives and work.

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Men of Mathematics.Alonzo Church - 1937 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 2 (2):95-95.

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