From Abacus to Algorism: Theory and Practice in Medieval Arithmetic

DOI10.1017/S0007087400015375zbMATH Open0358.01003OpenAlexW2115761169MaRDI QIDQ4133573FDOQ4133573

Gillian R. Evans

Publication date: 1977

Published in: BJHS. The British Journal for the History of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007087400015375

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in Late Antiquity and medieval Europe (01A35)

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