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Editor(s): Karen Hunger Parshall and Adrian C. Rice.
Title: Mathematics unbound: The evolution of an international mathematical research community, 1800-1945
Additional book information: History of Math., vol. 23, American Mathematical Society/London Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2002, xxii + 406, $85.00, 0-8218-2124-5

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Reviewer(s):
David E. Rowe
Affiliation: Mainz University
Email: rowe@mathematik.uni-mainz.de

MSC (2000): Primary 01A55, 01A60, 01A70, 01A72, 01A73, 01A74, 01A80
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-03-00990-X
PII: S 0273-0979(03)00990-X
Posted: July 10, 2003
Copyright of article: Copyright 2003, American Mathematical Society

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