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@Book{Alexander:2010:DDH,
  author =       "Amir Alexander",
  title =        "Duel at Dawn: Heroes, Martyrs, and the Rise of Modern
                 Mathematics",
  publisher =    pub-HARVARD,
  address =      pub-HARVARD:adr,
  pages =        "307",
  year =         "2010",
  ISBN =         "0-674-04661-7",
  ISBN-13 =      "978-0-674-04661-0",
  LCCN =         "QA10.7 .A44 2010",
  bibdate =      "Thu Mar 14 12:05:39 MDT 2013",
  bibsource =    "https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/annscience.bib;
                 https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/bjhs2010.bib;
                 https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/histmath.bib;
                 https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/master.bib;
                 https://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/mathgaz2010.bib;
                 z3950.loc.gov:7090/Voyager",
  abstract =     "From Paris to St. Petersburg, Norway to Transylvania,
                 Amir Alexander introduces us to national heroes and
                 outcasts, innocents, swindlers, and martyrs --- all
                 uncommonly gifted creators of modern mathematics.",
  acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
  subject =      "Mathematics; Social aspects; History",
  tableofcontents = "Introduction: A Showdown in Paris / 1 \\
                 I: Natural men \\
                 1: The eternal child / 19 \\
                 2: Natural mathematics / 49 \\
                 II: Heroes and martyrs \\
                 3: A habit of insult: The short and impertinent life of
                 {\'E}variste Galois / 77 \\
                 4: The exquisite dance of the blue nymphs / 301 \\
                 5: A martyr to contempt / 127 \\
                 III: Romantic mathematics \\
                 6: The poetry of mathematics / 159 \\
                 7: Purity and rigor: the birth of modern mathematics /
                 184 \\
                 IV: A new and different world \\
                 8: The gifted swordsman / 215 \\
                 Conclusion: Portrait of a mathematician / 253 \\
                 Notes / 275 \\
                 Acknowledgements / 299 \\
                 Index / 301",
}

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