Thomas Harriot's doctrine of triangular numbers: The ``Magisteria Magna

DOI10.4171/059zbMATH Open1168.01001OpenAlexW1671794041MaRDI QIDQ954088FDOQ954088

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Publication date: 7 November 2008

Published in: Heritage of European Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.4171/059

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Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to history and biography (01-02) History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40)

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