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About the cover: Billingsley's Euclid in English
Authors:
Gerald L. Alexanderson and William S. Greenwalt
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 49 (2012), 163-167
Posted:
October 25, 2011
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Additional Information
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Additional Information
Gerald L. Alexanderson
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, California 95053-0290
Email:
galexand@math.scu.edu
William S. Greenwalt
Affiliation:
Department of Classics, Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, California 95053-0275
Email:
wgreenwalt@scu.edu
DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-2011-01365-9
PII:
S 0273-0979(2011)01365-9
Posted:
October 25, 2011
Additional Notes:
Thanks to Leonard F. Klosinski for his technical assistance in scanning the title page and for lending us his copy of the Nuremberg Chronicle.
Article copyright:
© Copyright 2011 American Mathematical Society
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