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Old 05-10-2010, 03:38 AM   #709
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Originally Posted by Hamlet53 View Post
A History of Mathematics by Florian Cajori

I anticipate that this will be a significant effort. So if anyone else is working on this, or plans to work on this, please speak now or forever hold your peace.
This is challenging. The scanned version at archive.org has twisted lines:

http://www.archive.org/stream/ahisto.../n110/mode/1up

It looks like a rushed job through the scanner. Will you rescan by visiting the library at Harvard?

Google Books' version doesn't suffer from the above, but has dust and ink lifting artifacts. This looks like the best scanned copy to base the conversion, although it does not have the crisp look of some pages on archive.org. Good luck. Whatever you do should be a welcome addition to what we currently have (I'm referring to the AMS reprint).
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