Jost Bürgi's methods of calculating sines, and possible transmission from India

DOI10.1007/S00407-019-00225-ZzbMath1418.01013OpenAlexW2921165657MaRDI QIDQ1740462

Samuel Hunziker, Roy Wagner

Publication date: 30 April 2019

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-019-00225-z

zbMATH Keywords

computing sinestransmission of knowledge from India

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40) History of Indian mathematics (01A32)

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