From Abacus to Algorism: Theory and Practice in Medieval Arithmetic

DOI10.1017/S0007087400015375MaRDI QIDQ4133573zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors 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

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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