Jacopo da Firenze's Tractatus Algorismi and Early Italian Abbacus Culture

In the city republics of Renaissance Italy, it was a common practice among the merchant class to send sons for a two-year course of study at an "abbacus school", where they learned practical, mostly commercial mathematics, known as abbaco. From this school institution, several hundred manu...

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Autor principal: Høyrup, Jens. (Autor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Autor corporatiu: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electrònic eBook
Idioma:English
Publicat: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2007.
Edició:1st ed. 2007.
Periòdiques:Science Networks. Historical Studies, 34
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Accés en línia:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8391-6
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Taula de continguts:
  • Jacopo, His Treatise, and Abbacus Culture
  • Three Manuscripts
  • The Abbacus Tradition
  • The Contents of Jacopo’s Tractatus
  • Algebra
  • Jacopo’s Material and Influence
  • The Vatican Manuscript Edition and Translation
  • Edition and Translation Principles
  • The Text.