Umfang:
Getr. Zählung
,
Ill., graph. Darst.
,
23 cm
ISBN:
1409403688
,
9781409403685
Serie:
Variorum collected studies series 967
Inhalt:
This volume brings together articles on the different numeral forms used in the Middle Ages, and their use in mathematical and other contexts. Some pieces study the introduction of Hindu-Arabic numerals into Western Europe, documenting the different forms in which they are found
Inhalt:
The abacus of Echternach in ca. 1000 A.D. -- Abbon de Fleury, abaci doctor -- Algorismi vel helcep decentior est diligentia : the arithmetic of Adelard of Bath and his circle -- Ten or forty? A confusing numerical symbol in the Middle Ages -- Indian numerals in the Mediterranean basin in the twelfth century, with special references to the eastern forms -- The use of Arabic numberals among the three language cultures of Norman Sicily -- Why we read Arabic numerals backwards -- The Toledan regule (Liber alchorismi, part II) : a twelfth-century arithmetical miscellany / with Ji-Wei Zhao and Kurt Lampe -- Learning Indian arithmetic in the early thirteenth century -- Latin alphanumerical notation, and annotation in Italian, in the twelfth century : MS London, British Library, Harley 5402 -- Fibonacci's method of the Indians
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Mathematik
Schlagwort(e):
Arithmetik
;
Zahlensystem
;
Handschrift
;
Geschichte 900-1300
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