scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1284301

MaRDI QIDQ4241885zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Ulrich Reich

Publication date 22 March 2000

zbMATH Keywords

16th century mathematicsGermanyScheubel

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Review text

This paper discusses life and work of the not very well-known but important 16th century mathematician Scheubel. He was the first to publish in 1555 a German translation of the 7th, 8th and 9th books of Euclid's Elements. He became internationally well-known by his Algebra which appeared in two identical editions in Paris in 1551 and 1552. \textit{Robert Recorde}'s The Whetstone of Witte (1557) -- famous for the introduction of the equality sign -- is based on Scheubel's Algebra. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0855.00013].

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