Renaissance notions of number and magnitude

DOI10.1016/j.hm.2004.11.011zbMath1107.01002OpenAlexW1978732198MaRDI QIDQ2490947

Antoni Malet

Publication date: 18 May 2006

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2004.11.011

zbMATH Keywords

EuclidRegiomontanusRenaissance algebraSimon StevinChristopher ClaviusHenry BillingsleyJohn Deehistory of arithmeticNiccoló Tartaglia

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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