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Parshall, Karen Hunger (2005), "The emergence of the American Mathematical research community", in Kinyon, Michael; Van Brummelen, Glen (eds.),
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Livonia, Michigan
Geneva, New York
University of Michigan
Johns Hopkins University
Durfee square
Mathematics
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Doctoral advisor
James Sylvester
Durfee squares
James Sylvester
Hobart college
Durfee House
The elements of plane trigonometry
Parshall, Karen Hunger
Rowe, David E.
The emergence of the American mathematical research community, 1876–1900: J. J. Sylvester, Felix Klein, and E. H. Moore
American Mathematical Society
ISBN
978-0-8218-9004-2
MR
1290994
Springer-Verlag
doi
10.1007/0-387-28272-6
ISBN
978-0-387-25284-1
MR
2156756
William Pitt Durfee

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