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IT has recently been said, with great truth, that pure mathematics is at the present moment the most progressive of all the sciences. It is, we must confess with sorrow, equally true, that the means at the disposal of English pure mathematical students for making themselves familiar with the recent advances in their science are deplorably scanty. This is not the place to discuss the reasons why it has so long been the case in this island that the stars of our mathematical tirmament have been
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“Lectures on the Ikosahedron, and the Solution of Equations of the Fifth Degree.” By Felix Klein . Translated by George Gavin Morrice, M. A., M.B. (London: Trübner and Co., 1888.)
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CH., G. Klein's “Ikosahedron”1. Nature 40, 35–39 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040035d0
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