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Peter Pesic:Abel’s Proof: An Essay on the Sources and Meaning of Mathematical Unsolvability

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Book ID
124250843
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2004
Tongue
English
Weight
80 KB
Volume
95
Category
Article
ISSN
0021-1753

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