History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)

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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

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Brilliant (but mostly not so _newly_ known)
Archimedes - a mathematical genius centuries ahead of his time

The Works of Archimedes
Archimedes
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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ASIN: 0486420841

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Complete works of ancient geometer in highly accessible translation by distinguished scholar. Topics include the famous problems of the ratio of the areas of a cylinder and an inscribed sphere; the measurement of a circle; the properties of conoids, spheroids, and spirals; and the quadrature of the parabola. Informative introduction and 52-page supplement.

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Brilliant (but mostly not so _newly_ known).......2007-02-10

Again I feel I must post a review to counter misleading
information in an earlier review. The author of the
previous review seems to think these works were _not_
available to scholars during the Renaisance. In fact,
the famous "Archimedes Palimpsest" that resurfaced in
the 1990s is only a small part of the works of Archimedes
found in this book. Moreover, this book is a reprint of
the translation published in 1897 by Thomas L. Heath.
Heath _did_ have access to the Palimpsest (or maybe to
a translation into German or to a copy--of this I am
unsure) and did include a translation in this book in
1897. It is true that after the Palimpsest resurfaced
in the 1990s and began to be examined by modern methods,
some lacunae were filled in. But that's not even most
of the Palimpsest, let alone most of the contents of
this book. Moreover, the newly discovered material is
not in this book (but Heath's translation of the Palimpsest
is). The previous reviewer is _extremely_ confused about
the history.

Now to the contents of the book. The famous Palimpsest
actually is my favorite part. Prepare to be dazzled.
Many 20th-century calculus texts, saying that integral
calculus was anticipated by Archimedes in the 3rd century
BC, are so phrased that they may give their readers
the impression that Archimedes worked with something similar
to Riemann sums, or similar nonsense. The truth is far more
interesting. Archimedes used infinitesimals explicitly.
His proofs were amazingly efficient. If you think that a
brilliant proof by an ancient mathematician having only
relatively primitive methods at his disposal must be longer
and more complicated than a proof by modern methods, think
again. Modern methods are indeed more efficient, but not
because one writes _shorter_ proofs; rather it is because
(at least in the present case) one writes _fewer_ proofs.
Archimedes introduced the concept of center of gravity.
In the Palimpsest, he finds not only areas and volumes,
but centers of gravity (that of a solid hemisphere of
uniform volume is 5/8 of the way from the "north pole" to
the center of the sphere, Archimdes shows in one of his
startlingly efficient proofs--just one example).

It was not only by the use of infinitesimals that Archimedes
solved problems that would now be treated by integral calculus.
For example, one of the methods (just one of them) by which
Archimedes found the area between a parabola and one of its
secant lines involved dividing that area into an infinite
sequence of triangles, the sum of the areas of which is a
geometric series. Many other examples are in these pages.

Archimedes - a mathematical genius centuries ahead of his time.......2006-07-07

The Works of Archimedes is the record of work by one of the world's greatest minds -- the ancient Greek, Archimedes -- a mathematical genius centuries ahead of his time. Hidden for a millennium in a middle eastern library, it has been written over, broken up, painted on, cut up and re-glued. But in the nick of time scientists have saved the precious, fragile documents, and it reveals just how revolutionary Archimedes' ideas were. If it had been available to scholars during the Renaissance, we might have reached the Moon over a hundred years ago. Archimedes was a man who was thousands of years ahead of his time. Not only was Archimedes coming to terms with the profound subject of infinity, he had taken the first crucial steps towards calculus, a branch of mathematics that had to be reinvented after the Renaissance, and which is today used to describe every physical phenomenon from the movement of the planets to the construction of a skyscraper. Who knows what human minds could have achieved if they had only known what Archimedes already knew?

Geometry Workbook For Dummies (For Dummies (Math & Science))

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Excellent Book!

Geometry Workbook For Dummies (For Dummies (Math & Science))
Mark Ryan
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Algebra for Dummies

ASIN: 0471799408

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Geometry is one of the oldest mathematical subjects in history. Unfortunately, few geometry study guides offer clear explanations, causing many people to get tripped up or lost when trying to solve a proof—even when they know the terms and concepts like the back of their hand. However, this problem can be fixed with practice and some strategies for slicing through all the mumbo-jumbo and getting right to the heart of the proof.

Geometry Workbook For Dummies ensures that practice makes perfect, especially when problems are presented without the stiff, formal style that you’d find in your math textbook. Written with a commonsense, street-smart approach, this guide gives you the step-by-step process to solve each proof, along with tips, shortcuts, and mnemonic devices to make sure the solutions stick. It also gives you plenty of room to work out your solutions, providing you with space to breathe and a clear head. This book provides you with the tools you need to solve all types of geometry problems, including:

Congruent triangles
Finding the area, angle, and size of quadrilaterals
Angle-arc theorems and formulas
Touching radii and tangents
Connecting radii and chords
Parallel, perpendicular, and intersecting lines and planes
Slope, distance, and midpoint formulas
Line and circle equations
Handling rotations, reflections, and other transformations

Packed with tons of strategies for solving proofs and a review of key concepts, Geometry Workbook For Dummies is the ultimate study aid for students, parents, and anyone with an interest in the field.

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Excellent Book!.......2006-12-23

Simple and easy to follow - a great book to work through if you need to learn proofs. Excellent book to help you prepare for the CSET single subject mathematics exam!

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This book has a few errors
Needs more practice problems at end of sections.
Another Book Leaving Out Important Details
I found multiple errors in this book
Good but confusing at some points

Pre-Algebra Demystified
Allan G. Bluman , and Allan Bluman
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Say goodbye to dry presentations, grueling formulas, and abstract theories that would put Einstein to sleep -- now there's an easier way to master the disciplines you really need to know.

McGraw-Hill's Demystified Series teaches complex subjects in a unique, easy-to-absorb manner, and is perfect for users without formal training or unlimited time. They're also the most time-efficient, interestingly written "brush-ups" you can find.

Organized as self-teaching guides, they come complete with key points, background information, questions at the end of each chapter, and even final exams. You'll be able to learn more in less time, evaluate your areas of strength and weakness and reinforce your knowledge and confidence.

A self-teaching guide to basic arithmetic, covering whole numbers, fractions, percentages, ratio and proportion, basic algebra, basic geometry, basic statistics and probability.

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This book has a few errors.......2007-04-05

HAHA! Ok, I'll explain why I am laughing. I have been working on this book and everything has been good until chapter 11 page 211. I remembered when I first bought this book, I read this comment and thought "ok the guy (S.Brown) just doesn't know how to answer the problem" I came on here looking for this comment to see if it was the same comment I had. That is why I am laughing. The author really does just give up after chapter 10! Although there are a few errors in this book, it's a pretty ok book. Considering I didn't even know my multiplication table before I started this book and now I can pass math tests easily. Yah! Except the graphing. Luckily I have three other math books that can help with this.

Needs more practice problems at end of sections........2006-08-22

Although the DeMystified series promises to demystify math, it helped me in some areas;however, with this particular title I found the book seriously weak on practice problems. I bought it in order to brush up on my basic math skills, but in my experience with it, it wasn't enough to throw out five or ten practice problems per section and assume that I'd know the concepts well. Some, like me, need to be able to practice quite a few problems to get the idea or just to be sure that I understand the math concept correctly. I found this to be the books greatest weakness.

One would do better to just study from their class texts since these works often do give you the practice and detailed explanation you may need. If one is looking to cram (shame on you), then this book may work. However, then again, it may not since there are so few practice problems.

Another Book Leaving Out Important Details.......2005-10-20

"Demystified" is more like "profoundly confusing." It's just another book rushing through problems with little or no explanation. It really angers me that there are so many books like this that promise enlightenment but provide headache. Maybe it'll work for you, but if you're like me and REALLY need this stuff taught SLOWLY step-by-step (meaning no steps skipped), then try another book. Upon reading this book, I felt as though it assumed I had experience in the subject it was supposed to introduce me to. Try Painless Algebra by Lynette Long-while not flawless, it is the best I have used thus far and has brought me, a math loser, into the game.

I found multiple errors in this book.......2005-07-24

This book really is a good refresher, and I liked up until I found a few answers he had given, which were wrong. I was so confused by the answers, I had two math teachers validate that they were most definately wrong. The wordage in some areas is a little obscure aswell. Another thing I found about this book I didn't like was that he does'nt give enough exercises; that is, he doesn't give the appropriate kinds of exercises in certain chapters. I was doing a problem and thought to myself "perhaps I can switch this problem around in my own way, and see what I got" I came up with a strange instance where he had not given an example on how to get around such a problem. So I had to ask my Math advisor at school. In the fractions part, he chooses to skip altogether on "How to convert repeating decimals into fractions" saying "Changing a repeating decimal to a fraction requires a more complex procedure, and this procedure is beyond the scope of this book" yet I looked the procedure up, and it really is a pretty quick explanation.

The book is definately a quick refresher type, but this can pose a problems for those of you who wish to get an elaborate run through on each exercise, because some exercises miss important examples.

For the most part, its worth the buy to get yourself off the ground, and be able to refresh. It may get you a little pissed at times, but the errors are learning tools within themselves considering he may have put them there deliberately.

This isn't a book for those of you who want a elaborate explanation/examples for pre-algebra, but for those who just want to get on with it, and dont really care for math in an elaborate sense, it's definately a book worth buying!

Good but confusing at some points.......2005-03-28

This book does exactly what it says it will do, right up to chapter 11. For some reason, the author seemed to be in a hurry and deviated from the normal "step by step" approach used in previous chapters.

I understood everything from page 1 to the bottom of page 211. At the top of page 212 there are 5 practice questions that left me in the dark. No explanation as to what the author wants and the answers add to the confusion.

Here is an example of how easily it is to become confused.

The author walks you through graphing lines.

Page 211:
Draw the graph of 2x-y=8
Find the coordinates of two points on the line:
Let x= 1

2x-y=8
2(1)-y=8
2-y=8
2-2-y=8-2
-y=6
-y/-1 = 6/-1
y=6
(1,6)

I understand how to do this, and the author goes on to show how to graph 2x-y=8 when x=1 and x=5

Page 212:
Draw the graph of each of the following:
1.
2.
3.
4. 3x-y=6.
5.

Up until this point the author gives you the value of x for you to solve his examples and how this looks on a graph. Suddenly at practice time you are not given the value for x and you are suppose to graph a line. I am just learning how to work this type of problem. Am I suppose to substitute my own value for x? A little input would have been helpful here. The answers that are given, if I am to give my own value for x, my lines will be different than the lines the author shows? Is this right?

I cannot count how many times I had to go back and re-read previous pages in chapter 11 to try and read the authors mind.

I am now trying to take the chapter 11 quiz.

Question 6. The line whose equation is 2x+3y=6 is:
(a) line l
(b) line m
(c) line n
(d) line o

I have read and re-read this chapter and gone over the previous examples. I have tried to find an answer on the internet. Am I suppose to use my own substitute values for x? If so, wouldn't the line be different from the authors answer? I have no idea because I don't know what values the author used versus mine. I don't like to reverse engineer answers. As if you could reverse engineer lines on a graph.

I take a pre-college test in 10 days. I can only hope they do not ask me to choose the "line whose equation is x-2y=4".

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Fun!

Shapes, Shapes, Shapes

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ASIN: 0688147402

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Whenever you are -- inside or outside -- there are shapes to discover. And with Tana Hoban's help you will begin to see them. Look around. How many circles, squares, stars, triangles, hearts, and rectangles can you see?

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Fun!.......1999-04-18

This is such a fun book that teaches children to look around their world for objects and shapes. Another one my children love is 'What Is Round?'

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A Work of Art

The Geometry of Sheet Metal Work
A. Dickason
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A Work of Art.......2004-06-09

I'm rather surprized that this book has not been reviewed but then maybe there aren't many sheetmetal workers looking for these books these days or maybe they just don't write reviews. I say that there probably aren't many looking for these books because most of what is in these books is now done with a CNC operated Laser cutter, Plasma cutter or maybe a Turret Punch. All you have to do is load some dimensions into a program and it magically does it all for you. If however you work in a shop without the requisite machine and computer or at home then this is the book for you.
Dickason wrote this book back in the days when all you had was a trammel bar, rule and set of dividers to mark out patterns for the obects to be constructed.
The book starts with the Radial line method of development and then moves onto the Paralled line method and then the Triangulation method. He covers the three methods three times introducing increasingly harder problems along the way. Each time elucidating a new concept. The next section is on the Method of Cutting Planes which is required for determining the joint lines between say a cone and a cyclinder. Until you have determined the joint line you can not develop the patterns required for each item. He has a section on Branch and Junction pieces and a section on Unusual Problems. He then finishes the book with a chapter on the two difficult subjects of Double Projection and Twisted Surfaces.
Throughout the book the often complex drawings are complimented with instructional text. There is a good Table of Contents and reasonable Index.
This book is not for the faint of heart as it requires much study but that is the nature of the subject and not the authors fault.
This also indicates why so many within the industry have a limited understanding of the various methods of development and when to use which method. Unfortunately it is most difficult to teach spatial perception. If you cannot visualize it you won't be able to make it.
Just a small note here about the authors other books which are once again of good instructional quality. He has written "Sheetmetal Drawing and Pattern Development"(ISBN 0-582-99482-90), "The Calulation of Sheetmetal Work", and "The Technology of Sheetmetal Work". All very good books in there own right. The second book on development is in his words "supplementary" to this book and is equally brilliant.
If you want to do any serious pattern development then this is certainly one of the few places to start. Dickason is an expert with a difficult subject and knew his subject very well.
It has to have a minimum 5 stars as it has very few peers.

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Encyclopedia of General Topology
K.P. Hart , Jun-iti Nagata , and J.E. Vaughan
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This book is designed for the reader who wants to get a general view of the terminology of General Topology with minimal time and effort. The reader, whom we assume to have only a rudimentary knowledge of set theory, algebra and analysis, will be able to find what they want if they will properly use the index. However, this book contains very few proofs and the reader who wants to study more systematically will find sufficiently many references in the book.

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Kids love it and teacher's too!.......2005-07-23

As an Instructional Facilitator at my school, we received this guide to help students remember key concepts in math, however our teachers have adapted these ideas to use with science and social studies concepts also. The teachers find this to be a creative way to help the children organize the facts and their ideas, and the kids love to get to do something different than just take notes or complete a study guide.

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A Geometrical Picture Book
Burkard Polster
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How do you convey to your students, colleagues and friends some of the beauty of the kind of mathematics you are obsessed with? If you are a mathematician interested in finite or topological geometry and combinatorial designs, you could start by showing them some of the (400+) pictures in the "picture book". Pictures are what this book is all about; original pictures of everybody's favorite geometries such as configurations, projective planes and spaces, circle planes, generalized polygons, mathematical biplanes and other designs which capture much of the beauty, construction principles, particularities, substructures and interconnections of these geometries. The level of the text is suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. Even if you are a mathematician who just wants some interesting reading you will enjoy the author's very original and comprehensive guided tour of small finite geometries and geometries on surfaces This guided tour includes lots of sterograms of the spatial models, games and puzzles and instructions on how to construct your own pictures and build some of the spatial models yourself.

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A Mathematician in Turbulent Times

The Unreal Life of Oscar Zariski
Carol Ann Parikh
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A Mathematician in Turbulent Times.......2006-05-24

Carol Parikh's engaging bio of Oscar Zariski is a valuable contribution to the history of mathematics; it provides an understandable history of the development of algebraic geometry. The book also offers a valuable lesson in how political and racist vendettas have affected the "pure" science of mathematics and the lives of mathematicians. I came across her compelling book a year after publishing "A3 & His Algebra," the bio of A.A. Albert, who had a close collegial relationship with Zariski. The personal histories of both men demonstrate the importance of a free and open academic atmosphere to the development of scientific innovation. Nancy E. Albert, author of "A3 & His Algebra".

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