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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

Published by the American Mathematical Society, the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (BULL) is devoted to research articles of the highest quality in all areas of pure and applied mathematics.

ISSN 1088-9485 (online) ISSN 0273-0979 (print)

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Book Review

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Book Information:

Authors: Victor J. Katz and Karen Hunger Parshall
Title: Taming the unknown. A history of algebra from antiquity to the early twentieth century
Additional book information: Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 2014, xvi+485 pp., ISBN 978-0-691-14905-9, US $49.50

Review Information:

Reviewer: John Stillwell
Affiliation: University of San Francisco
Email: stillwell@usfca.edu
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 52 (2015), 725-731
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-2015-01491-6
Published electronically: March 23, 2015
Review copyright: © Copyright 2015 American Mathematical Society