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THE history of the theory of algebraic forms gives a striking example of the fact that the germ of a mathematical doctrine may remain dormant for a long period, and then suddenly develop in a most surprising way. The principles of the calculus of forms are to be found in the arithmetical works of Lagrange, Gauss, and Eisenstein; but the great expansion of the theory, with which we are now so familiar, practically dates from the publication of the papers of Boole, Cayley, and Sylvester, about fifty years ago.
An Introduction to the Algebra of Quantics.
By E. B. Elliott Pp. xiv. + 424. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1895.)
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M., G. An Introduction to the Algebra of Quantics. Nature 53, 147–148 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/053147a0
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