The Latin tradition of algebra, Fibonacci, the abacus schools, the sixteenth century
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
zbMATH Open document ID: 1250.01003
author: Massimo Galuzzi
author: Luigi Maierù
author: Nadia Santoro
publication date: 2012-08-16T00:00:00Z
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01-02
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A35
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A40
zbMATH DE Number: 6066625
zbMATH Keywords: European medieval algebra
zbMATH Keywords: Fibonacci
zbMATH Keywords: Renaissance algebra
zbMATH Keywords: Rafael Bombelli
MaRDI profile type: Publication
title: The Latin tradition of algebra, Fibonacci, the abacus schools, the sixteenth century
published in: Matematiche Complementari
review text: This book is the second of a series: the first one, from the same authors, was intitled `La nascita dell'algebra e la riflessione dei matematici arabi' [Rome: Aracne (2010; Zbl 1211.01003)]. This book concerns the beginning of the european medieval algebra with the latin translations of the islamic texts (\S1), Fibonacci's books (\S2), abacus' schools between the low Middle Ages and Renaissance (\S3), the italian algebraists in the 16th century (\S4), Rafael Bombelli (\S5) and the last texts before the emergence of symbolic algebra at the beginning of the 17th century (\S6). The main content of the book is a detailed analysis of the algebraic problems, translated in the modern form.
reviewed by: Luigi Borzacchini
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6066625