Article ID: CBB964219676

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

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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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Rommevaux, Sabine
Ostorero, Martine
Long, Pamela O.
Álvarez, Mari-Tere
Black, Charlene Villaseñor
Emmanuel de Crouy-Chanel
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