Numerals and arithmetic in the Middle Ages /

Main Author: Burnett, Charles
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Variorum, c2010
Series:Variorum collected studies series ; CS967
Subjects:
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500 |a A collection of previously published articles 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and indexes 
505 0 |a 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 
650 0 |a Numerals   |x History   |y To 1500 
650 0 |a Numerical analysis 
650 0 |a Mathematics, Medieval 
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