Explorations and False Trails
This book provides a unique perspective on the history of European algebra up to the advent of Viète and Descartes. The standard version of this history is written on the basis of a narrow and misleading source basis: the Latin translations of al-Khwārizmī, Fibonacci''s Liber abbaci, Luca Pacioli''s Summa, Cardano''s Ars magna—with neither Fibonacci nor Pacioli being read in detail. The existence ...
This book provides a unique perspective on the history of European algebra up to the advent of Viète and Descartes. The standard version of this history is written on the basis of a narrow and misleading source basis: the Latin translations of al-Khwārizmī, Fibonacci''s Liber abbaci, Luca Pacioli''s Summa, Cardano''s Ars magna—with neither Fibonacci nor Pacioli being read in detail. The existence ...
