Jacopo da Firenze's \textit{Tractatus algorismi} and early Italian abbacus culture

zbMath1126.01006MaRDI QIDQ885257

Jens Høyrup

Publication date: 8 June 2007

Published in: Science Networks. Historical Studies (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

medieval mathematicsabacus mathematics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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