ESSAYS ON EARLY MEDIEVAL MATHEMATICS by Menso Folkerts ( 9780860788959 )

Item Details

Title:

ESSAYS ON EARLY MEDIEVAL MATHEMATICS
THE LATIN TRADITION

By:

Menso Folkerts

Format:

Hardback

List price:

£135.00

Our price:

£130.95

Discount:

3% off

You save:

£4.05

ISBN 10:

0860788954

ISBN 13:

9780860788959

Availability:

Usually dispatched within 1-3 weeks.

Delivery rates

Stock:

Currently 0 available

Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

12 May, 2003

Series:

Variorum Collected Studies CS751

Pages:

382

Description:

This work deals with the mathematics of the medieval West between around 500 and 1100, the period before the translations from Arabic and Greek had their impact. Among the topics treated are: the Roman surveyors (agrimensores); and recreational mathematics in the period of Bede and Alcuin.

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 Liege 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.

Illustrations:

index

Publication:

Imprint:

Variorum

Returns:

Returnable

Some other items by this author:

ANONYME LATEINISCHE EUKLIDBEARBEITUNGEN AUS DEM 12. JAHRHUNDERT (PB)

DIE ALTESTE MATHEMATISCHE AUFGABENSAMMLUNG IN LATEINISCHER SPRACHE (PB)

EAGLE-GUIDE VON PYTHAGORAS BIS PTOLEMAIOS (PB)

ESSAYS ON EARLY MEDIEVAL MATHEMATICS (PB)