MathFiction: Frobenius: A Sesquilogue (Lee Rudolph)

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Frobenius: A Sesquilogue (1996)

Lee Rudolph
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A fictionalized account of the life of Hamilton as remembered by Frobenius (in verse). (A slightly different version was published in the Mathematical Intelligencer.)

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Categories:

Genre	Historical Fiction,
Motif	Real Mathematicians,
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