Main Essays on Early Medieval Mathematics: The Latin Tradition
Essays on Early Medieval Mathematics: The Latin Tradition cover

Essays on Early Medieval Mathematics: The Latin Tradition

5.0 / 5.0
0 comments
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.
Request Code : ZLIBIO4164473
Categories:
Year:
2003
Publisher:
Variorum
Language:
German
ISBN 10:
0860788954
ISBN 13:
9781138375444
ISBN:
9780860788959,9781138375444,0860788954
Series:
Variorum Collected Studies Series, Cs751

Comments of this book

There are no comments yet.