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On Writing the History of Geometry – 3

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This is the third and last of the chapters on how to write the history of mathematics, and considers how one might the events in the history of geometry in the 19th century and their importance by around 1900.

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Gray, J. (2011). On Writing the History of Geometry – 3. In: Worlds Out of Nothing. Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-060-1_31

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