Mathematics from manuscript to print : 1300-1600
edited by Cynthia Hay
Bok · Engelsk · 1988
| Medvirkende | |
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| Utgitt | Oxford , 1988
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| Omfang | 273 s. : ill.
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| Opplysninger | Introduction PART 1: ITALIAN AND PROVENCAL MATHEMATICS: Fourteenth-century Italian algebra On an algorithm for the approximation of surds from a Provencal treatise PART 2: NICOLAS CHUQUET AND FRENCH MATHEMATICS: Nicolas Chuquet - an introduction The place of Nicolas Chuquet in a typology of fifteenth-century French arithmetics Concerning the method employed by Nicolas Chuquet for the extraction of cube roots The commercial arithmetic of Nicolas Chuquet Chuquet's mathematical executor: could Estienne de la Roche have changed the history of algebra? How algebra came to France PART 3: MATHEMATICS IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY: What could we learn from Master Christianus van Varenbraken? A note on Rudolf Snellius and the early history of mathematics in Leiden The first arithmetic book of Francisco Maurolico, written in 1557 and printed in 1575: a step towards a theory of numbers PART 4: MATHEMATICS AND ITS RAMIFICATIONS: Is translation betrayalin the history of mathematics? Renaissance mathematics (and astronomy) in Baldassare Boncompagni's Bulletino di bibliografia e di storia delle scienze matematiche e fisiche (1868-87) Some early sources in recreational mathematics Cornelius Agrippa's mathematical magic The market place and games of chance in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries Perspective and mathematicians: Alberti to Desargues Why did mathematics begin to take off in the sixteenth century? Index.
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| ISBN | 0198539096
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