The algebra between history and education: Victor J. Katz and Karen Hunger Parshall: Taming the unknown. History of algebra from antiquity to the early twentieth century. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014, xiii + 485 pp, $49.50 (Cloth) [Book Review]

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