Roger Hart, “The Chinese Roots of Linear Algebra” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2011)
Jul 27, 2012
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Roger Hart‘s The Chinese Roots of Linear Algebra (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011) is the first book-length study of linear algebra in imperial China, and is based on an astounding combination of erudition and expertise in both Chinese history and the practice and history of linear algebra. Alternating among an...
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