Essays on Early Medieval Mathematics: The Latin Tradition - Couverture rigide

Folkerts, Menso

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0860788954 ISBN 13 : 9780860788959

Editeur : Variorum, 2003

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Menso Folkerts is Professor of the History of Sciences at the University of Munich, Germany and the author of a second collection in the Variorum series: The Development of Mathematics in Medieval Europe.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Variorum
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0860788954
• ISBN 13: 9780860788959
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 382
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• Personne responsable: non disponible