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Author Lützen, Jesper, author.

Title A History of Mathematical Impossibility / Jesper Lützen
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (315 p.)
Summary This book tells the history of impossibility theorems starting with the ancient Greek proof of the incommensurability of the side and the diagonal in a square
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 15, 2023)
Subject Mathematics -- History
Mathematical analysis -- History
Mathematical analysis
Mathematics
Mathematics.
Mathematics.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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