Leo Corry The Cohn Institute for History
and Philosophy of Science and Ideas
Tel-Aviv University,
Ramat Aviv, 69978, Israel
   
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Publications - On Algebra and Number Theory
                    (in inverse chronological order)


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Reviews
Modern Algebra and the Rise of Mathematical Structures, (Science Networks Vol. 17), Basel and Boston, Birkhäuser Verlag (1996). Second, revised edition (softcover - October 2003).

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"Steht es alles wirklich schon bei Dedekind? Ideals and factorization between Dedekind and Noether", in Katrin Scheel, Thomas Sonar and Peter Ullrich (eds.) In Memoriam Richard Dedekind (1831-1916) Münster, Verlag für wissenschaftliche Texte und Medien (2017), pp. 134-159.

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"Distributivity-like Results in the Medieval Traditions of Euclid's Elements: Between Geometry and Arithmetic", Mathesis Ser. V, Vol. 1 (2), (Jul. Dec. 2016).

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"Some distributivity-like results in the the medieval arithmetic of Jordanus Nemorarius and Campanus de Novara", Historia Mathematica 43 (2016), 310–331. (DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2016.06.001)

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"Euclid’s II.5 between Pure Geometry and Geometrical Algebra: A Guided Tour Spanning Twenty-Two Centuries ", Unpublished Manuscript (Not for quotation)


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"On the History of Fermat's Last Theorem: A Down-to-Earth Approach", Unpublished Manuscript (Not for quotation)


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"Distributivity-like Results in the Medieval Traditions of Euclid's Elements: Between Geometry and Arithmetic", Mathesis UNAM - (2016)

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"Geometry and Arithmetic in the Medieval Traditions of Euclid's Elements: a View from Book II", Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 67(6) (2013): 637-705


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"Hunting Prime Numbers from Human to Electronic Computers", The Rutherford Journal - The New Zealand Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (rutherfordjournal.org), Vol. 3 (2010)


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"On the History of Fermat’s Last Theorem: Fresh Views on an Old Tale", Mathematische Semeterberichte 57 (1), (2010): 123-138. DOI 10.1007/s00591-010-0068-4


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"Number Crunching vs. Number Theory: Computers and FLTfrom Kummer to SWAC (1850-1960), and beyond", Archive for History of Exact Science 62(1) (2008): 393-455


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"Fermat Comes to America: Harry Schultz Vandiver and FLT (1914-1964)”, Mathematical Intelligencer (2007) (Forthcoming)


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"From Algebra (1895) to Moderne Algebra (1930): Changing Conceptions of a Discipline. A Guided Tour Using the Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik", in J. Gray and K.H. Parshall (eds.), Episodes in the History of Modern Algebra, Providence, American Mathematical Society / London Mathematical Society (2007), 80-105.

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"History of Algebra". In: Encyclopaedia Britannica (2005). [Also available in web version]


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"The Emergence of the Structural Conception in Algebra", in Sandro Petruccioli (ed.) Storia della scienza, Roma, Istituto della Encyclopedia Italiana (2004), Vol. VIII, 193-198.

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"Fermat's Last Theorem: How Does a Marginal Remark Turn into an Important Mathematical Question? Or Does it?", (Hebrew) Galileo. Israeli Journal for Science and Ecology (2004).

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"Heinrich Weber’s Lehrbuch der Algebra", in I. Grattan-Guinness et al. (eds.) Landmark Writings In Western Mathematics, 1640-1940, Amsterdam, Elsevier Science. (2004)

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"Theory of Invariants", in Sandro Petruccioli (ed.) Storia della scienza, Roma, Istituto della Encyclopedia Italiana (2003), Vol. VII, 1025-1029.

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"Mathematical Structures from Hilbert to Bourbaki: The Evolution of an Image of Mathematics", in A. Dahan and U. Bottazzini (eds.) Changing Images of Mathematics in History. From the French Revolution to the new Millenium, London, Harwood Academic Publishers (2001), 167-186.

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"The Origins of the Definition of Abstract Rings", Gazette des Mathématiciens, 83 (Janvier 2000), 28-47. (Reprint: Modern Logic, 8 (1-2), 1998-2000: 5-27.)

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“Nicolas Bourbaki and the Concept of Mathematical Structure”, Synthese 92: 315-348 (1992) (Also available in French translation)

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“Libros de Texto e Imágenes del Algebra en el Siglo XIX”, Llull 14: 7-30 (1991).

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“The Splitting Data of Cohomology Classes”, Archiv der Mathematik 44: 418-423 (1985)