The History of Modern Mathematics: Ideas and Their Reception 
Subtitle: Proceedings of the Sympowium on the History of Modern Mathematics Vassar College, Pou (History of Modern Mathematics)
Contributors: John McCleary (Editor)
Publisher: Academic Pr
Published: January 1990
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9780125996617
Subjects: Science/Mathematics; History Of Mathematics; General; Congresses; History; Mathematics
First sentence: The first mathematician to explicitly utilize the group concept in a geometrical setting was Camille Jordan (1838-1922).