The \textit{Liber augmenti et diminutionis}. A contribution to the history of medieval mathematics

Publication date 28 April 2025

Published in Boethius. Texte und Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Mathematik und der Naturwissenschaften (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

\textit{Liber augmenti et diminutionis}

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to history and biography (01-02) History of mathematics in the Golden Age of Islam (01A30) History of mathematics in Late Antiquity and medieval Europe (01A35) Collected or selected works; reprintings or translations of classics (01A75)

Review text

This is the first critical edition of the \textit{Liber augmenti et diminutionis}, a 12th-century Latin text resulting from a translation of an unknown Arabic original, whose author is known only as Abraham or Ibrahim. The probable translator is Gerard of Cremona. Divided into ten chapters, the text belongs to those presenting the science of computation.\N\NAfter a survey of the extant manuscripts, the Latin text is presented, followed by a French translation, and by a chapter devoted to a mathematical analysis and commentary. The main methods used to solve concretely phrased problems are the method of false position and the \textit{regula transversa}.

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