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This is a book about numbers - all kinds of numbers, from integers to p-adics, from rationals to octonions, from reals to infinitesimals. Who first used the standard notation for Â? Why was Hamilton obsessed with quaternions? What was the prospect for "quaternionic analysis" in the 19th ce...
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Bibliographic Details
| Main Author: |
Ebbinghaus, Heinz-Dieter |
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| Corporate Author: |
SpringerLink (Online service) |
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| Other Authors: |
Hermes, Hans,
Hirzebruch, Friedrich,
Koecher, Max,
Mainzer, Klaus,
Neukirch, Jürgen,
Prestel, Alexander,
Remmert, Reinhold |
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| Format: | eBook
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| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
New York, NY :
Springer New York,
1991.
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| Series: | Graduate texts in mathematics. Readings in mathematics ;
123.
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| Subjects: | |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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