"No part of mathematics came to birth in the form that it now appears in a modern textbook: mathematical creativity can be slow, sometimes messy, often frustrating."
— Mathematics

January 1, 1970

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Jacqueline Stedall, From Cardano’s Great Art to Lagrange’s Reflections: Filling a Gap in the History of Algebra (2011) Preface, p. ix. See also, her The History of Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction (2012) Ch. 1, Mathematics: myth and history.