Jacopo da Firenze’s Tractatus Algorismi and Early Italian Abbacus Culture
- Author
- Jens Høyrup
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Publisher
- Springer
- Language
- English
- Document Type
- Book
- Faculty / Subject Heading
- Mathematics and Statistics
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In the city republics of Renaissance Italy, it was a common practice among the merchant class to send sons for a two-year course of study at an "abbacus school", where they learned practical, mostly commercial mathematics, known as abbaco. From this school institution, several hundred manuscripts survive, all in Italian, often containing not only what the masters needed in their teaching but also algebra or other advanced mathematical material. A signal feature of the book by Jens Høyrup is the first translation of one of these abbacus manuscripts into English.
Keywords: Mathematics and Statistics / History of Mathematical Sciences / Applications of Mathematics / Abbacus / Area /Fibonacci, Leonardo / Jacopo da Firenze / Algebra / Bridge / EXist / Presentation
