Was Uncle Tom right that quadratic problems can't be solved with the rule of false position?

DOI10.1007/S00283-013-9404-6zbMath1307.01007OpenAlexW2016371065MaRDI QIDQ483357

Albrecht Heeffer

Publication date: 17 December 2014

Published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-013-9404-6

zbMATH Keywords

Babylonian mathematicsquadratic problemsdouble false positionEgyptian mathematicsregula falsisingle false position

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in Late Antiquity and medieval Europe (01A35) History of numerical analysis (65-03) History of Chinese mathematics (01A25) History of Babylonian mathematics (01A17) History of Egyptian mathematics (01A16)

Cites Work

• Fibonacci's \textit{Liber abaci}. A translation into modern English of Leonardo Pisano's \textit{Book of calculation}. Transl. from the Latin and with an introduction, notes and bibliography by L. E. Sigler
• Reflections on the World-wide History of the Rule of False Double Position, or: How a Loop Was Closed
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