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Introduction: The History of Early Mathematics – Ways of Re-Writing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2003

Reviel Netz
Reviel Netz
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Science in Context , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , September 2003 , pp. 275 - 286
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2003 Cambridge University Press

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