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Book Information
Author:
Roger Hart
Title:
The Chinese roots of linear algebra
Additional book information
Johns Hopkins University Press,
Baltimore, Maryland,
2011, xiv+286 pp., US $65.00, ISBN 978-0-8018-9755-9.
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Review Information
Reviewer:
Joseph F. Grcar
Affiliation:
6059 Castlebrook Drive; Castro Valley, California 94552-1645
Email:
jfgrcar@gmail.com
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-2011-01341-6
PII:
S 0273-0979(2011)01341-6
Posted:
June 7, 2011
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© Copyright 2011 American Mathematical Society
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