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  • ...e:w:Johannes Tropfke|Tropfke]] is an example of the tendency to break away from the mere chronological recital of facts. ...h century the cubic equation had begun to attract attention, as is evident from the [[w:Jigu Suanjing|Ch'i-ku Suan-king]] of [[w:Wang Xiaotong|Wang Hs'iao- ...
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  • ...]] from whom I received the decisive impulse to study [[abstract algebra]] from an arithmetical viewpoint, and this remained the governing idea for all my ** As quoted in Morris Kline, ''Mathematical Thought From Ancient to Modern Times'' (1972) p. 1153. ...
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  • ...ng then to augmented series... and diminished... or altered... constituted from sums or differences of two or more other series. ...[I]t was not too diffic ...rs proposed, are to be [[w:Prime number|Prime Numbers]], and each distinct from the other. For if any of them be [[w:Composite number|Compound Numbers]], o ...
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  • * Now this ratio of the single to the double arises, no doubt, from the [[wiktionary:ternary#Adjective|ternary]] number, since one added to two * The [[w:Pythagoreanism|Pythagorean]] mathematical concepts, abstracted from sense impressions of nature, were... projected into nature and considered t ...
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