Article ID: CBB000954346

Texts & Documents. A New Source for Medieval Mathematics in the Iberian Peninsula: The Commercial Arithmetic in Ms 10106 (Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid) (2009)

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This paper contains a critical edition of a short commercial arithmetic written in Castilian (ca. 1400). The manuscript has certain characteristic features, like the presence of composite fractions, that distinguishes it from other known treatises of the Iberian peninsula. The document appears to improve considerably our knowledge of the origins and the transmission of vernacular commercial arithmetic in Europe.

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Authors & Contributors
Ulivi, Elisabetta
Harry R. Lewis
Rabii, Maryam
Frank, Martin
Strickland, Lloyd
Rommevaux-Tani, Sabine
Journals
Bollettino di Storia delle Scienze Matematiche
Llull: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas
British Journal for the History of Mathematics
Tarikh-e Elm (The Iranian Journal for the History of Science)
Renaissance Quarterly
Quaderns d'Història de l'Enginyeria
Publishers
Springer International
MIT Press
Champion
Concepts
Mathematics
Arithmetic
Primary literature (historical sources)
Business and commerce
Applied mathematics
Calculating machines
People
Aurel, Marco
Qūshjī, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad
Gauss, Carl Friedrich
Stifel, Michael
Santcliment, Francesc
Rudolff, Christoff
Time Periods
15th century
Renaissance
16th century
Medieval
14th century
Early modern
Places
Spain
Italy
France
Nuremberg (Germany)
Castille (Spain)
Turin (Italy)
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