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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
  • MR Author ID: 24640
  • 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
  • Published electronically: 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.
  • © Copyright 2011 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 49 (2012), 163-167
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-2011-01365-9
  • MathSciNet review: 2869011