Essays on Early Medieval Mathematics

Essays on Early Medieval Mathematics
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 384
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ISBN-10 : 9781000941364
ISBN-13 : 1000941361
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Book Synopsis Essays on Early Medieval Mathematics by : Menso Folkerts

Download or read book Essays on Early Medieval Mathematics written by Menso Folkerts and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-14 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the mathematics of the medieval West between ca. 500 and 1100, the period before the translations from Arabic and Greek had their impact. Four of the studies appear for the first time in English. Among the topics treated are: the Roman surveyors (agrimensores); recreational mathematics in the period of Bede and Alcuin; geometrical texts compiled in Corbie and Lorraine from Latin sources from late antiquity; the abacus at the time of Gerbert (pope Sylvester II.); and a board-game invented in the first half of the 11th century (the 'Rithmimachia') to help people to learn mathematics. Included in the volume are critical editions of several texts, e.g. that of Franco of Liège on squaring the circle, Bede and Alcuin on recreational mathematics, and part of Pseudo-Boethius' Geometry I. The book opens with a survey of mathematics in the Middle Ages, and ends with a history of Rithmimachia up to the 17th century, when the game fell into disuse.


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