The medieval notion of \textit{contractio} in Michael Stifel's \textit{Arithmetica integra} (1544)

DOI10.24033/RHM.229MaRDI QIDQ4999764zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sabine Rommevaux-Tani

Publication date 2 July 2021

Published in Revue d'histoire des mathématiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.24033/rhm.229

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in Late Antiquity and medieval Europe (01A35) History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40)

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