Bill Ardis

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A History of Mode...

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A History of Modern Europe: From the Renaissance to the Present

by John M. Merriman

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The Analyst, Or, A Discourse Addressed To An Infidel Mathematician: Wherein It Is Examined Whether The Object, Principles, And Inferences Of The Modern Analysis Are More Distinctly Conceived, Or More Evidently Deduced, Than Religious Mysteries And Poin...

by George Berkeley

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A History of Pi

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A History of Pi

by Petr Beckmann

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