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Great Thinkers, Great Theorems: Season 1

1x22 The 19th Century - Rigor and Liberation
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  • 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z on The Great Courses
  • 30m
  • Special Interest, Documentary
Delve into some of the important trends of 19th-century mathematics: a quest for rigor in securing the foundations of calculus; the liberation from the physical sciences, embodied by non-Euclidean geometry; and the first significant steps toward opening the field to women.
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