Fabre and mathematics
Subtitle: and other essays
By: by Lao Genevra Simons.
Series: Scripta mathematica library -- no. 4
Publisher: Scripta Mathematica
Published: 1939
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 101
Subjects: Fabre, Jean-Henri, -- 1823-1915.; Humboldt, Alexander von, -- 1769-1859.; Textbooks -- United States.; Mathematicians -- France.; Mathematics -- Study and teaching.
Notes: "Errata" slip inserted.

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Table of contents: title: Fabre and mathematics.- The interest of Alexander von Humboldt in mathematics.- The influence of French mathematicians at the end of the eighteenth century.- Short stories in colonial geometry.