Why was Wantzel overlooked for a century? The changing importance of an impossibility result
Author:
- Jesper LützenJLJesper Lützen
- 1 November 2009
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Historia Mathematica
- Vol. 36 (4) , 374-394
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