The Development of Mathematics in Medieval Europe: The Arabs, Euclid, Regiomontanus

Author:   Menso Folkerts
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Edition:   New edition
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9780860789574


Pages:   360
Publication Date:   28 January 2006
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Menso Folkerts
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Variorum
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.830kg
ISBN:  

9780860789574


ISBN 10:   0860789578
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   28 January 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Contents: Preface; Arabic mathematics in the West; Early texts on Hindu-Arabic calculation; Euclid in Medieval Europe; Probleme der Euklidinterpretation und ihre Bedeutung fA1/4r die Entwicklung der Mathematik; Die mathematischen Studien Regiomontans in seiner Wiener Zeit; Regiomontanus' role in the transmission and transformation of Greek mathematics; Regiomontanus' approach to Euclid; Regiomontanus' role in the transmission of mathematical problems; Leonardo Fibonacci's knowledge of Euclid's Elements and of other mathematical texts; Piero della Francesca and Euclid; Luca Pacioli and Euclid; Algebra in Germany in the 15th century; Indexes.

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’Few scholars, if any, know more than Folkerts about medieval Latin mathematical manuscripts... whoever is interested in medieval Latin mathematics can therefore learn from this book... Summing up, Folkert's description of 15th-century German algebra is certainly indispensable for any further discussion of the topic in that it lists all known important and several [...] minor manuscript sources and points to many of the parameters that have to be taken into account.’ Aestimatio ’Together with the previous volume on Essays in early Medieval Mathematics, ... the book under review is indispensable for all research scholars in the history of science in antiquity, the Islamic and European medieval period, and the Renaissance.’ Suhayl


'Few scholars, if any, know more than Folkerts about medieval Latin mathematical manuscripts... whoever is interested in medieval Latin mathematics can therefore learn from this book... Summing up, Folkert's description of 15th-century German algebra is certainly indispensable for any further discussion of the topic in that it lists all known important and several [...] minor manuscript sources and points to many of the parameters that have to be taken into account.' Aestimatio 'Together with the previous volume on Essays in early Medieval Mathematics, ... the book under review is indispensable for all research scholars in the history of science in antiquity, the Islamic and European medieval period, and the Renaissance.' Suhayl


'Few scholars, if any, know more than Folkerts about medieval Latin mathematical manuscripts... whoever is interested in medieval Latin mathematics can therefore learn from this book... Summing up, Folkert's description of 15th-century German algebra is certainly indispensable for any further discussion of the topic in that it lists all known important and several [...] minor manuscript sources and points to many of the parameters that have to be taken into account.' Aestimatio 'Together with the previous volume on Essays in early Medieval Mathematics, ... the book under review is indispensable for all research scholars in the history of science in antiquity, the Islamic and European medieval period, and the Renaissance.' Suhayl


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Menso Folkerts is Professor of the History of Science at the University of Munich, Germany, and the author of a second collection in the Variorum series: Essays on Early Medieval Mathematics.

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