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Fri 10 Oct 2009Algebra's long journey from abstract to applied
MATHS WEEK:THE 19TH century was a golden age for the advance of mathematical research. But it would take many years to demonstrate the value of what was discovered, a leading mathematician will argue in a lecture this evening.
A key area of development, particularly during the early to mid-1800s, was in new kinds of algebra, says Prof Efim Zelmanov, the Atkinson professor of mathematics at the University of California, San Diego.
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