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A Plurality of Algebras, 1200–1600: Algebraic Europe from Fibonacci to Clavius (2017)

Parshall, Karen V. Hunger (Author)

British Society for the History of Mathematics Bulletin
Volume: 32
Issue: 1
Pages: 2-16

URI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17498430.2016.1225340

DOI: 10.1080/17498430.2016.1225340

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Algebra 17th century 16th century 15th century 14th century Renaissance Medieval Europe Clavius, Christopher Fibonacci, Leonardo

In memory of Jackie Stedall, friend and colleague - As Jackie Stedall argued in her 2011 book, From Cardano's great art to Lagrange's reflections: filling a gap in the history of algebra, there was a ‘transition from the traditional algebra of equation-solving in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to the emergence of “modern” or “abstract” algebra in the mid nineteenth century’ (page vii). This paper traces the evolution from the thirteenth-century work of the Pisan mathematician, Leonardo Fibonacci, to the early seventeenth-century work of the German Jesuit Christoph Clavius of what came to be considered ‘traditional algebra’. It contends that rather than a single ‘traditional algebra’, in fact, a plurality of intimately related yet subtly different algebras emerged over the course of those four centuries in different yet interacting national settings.

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