Renaissance notions of number and magnitude

DOI10.1016/j.hm.2004.11.011zbMath1107.01002MaRDI 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

Euclid; Regiomontanus; Renaissance algebra; Simon Stevin; Christopher Clavius; Henry Billingsley; John Dee; history of arithmetic; Niccoló Tartaglia

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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