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Mathematical Recreations in the Middle Ages

by Jacques Sesiano
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9782889155125
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Epfl Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Epfl Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 352
  • Original Price: USD 75.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 640 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): History and History & Philosophy

A whimsical examination of math in the Middle Ages.

This book brings together many unusual and entertaining examples of Medieval mathematical exercises. Medieval treatises on arithmetic and algebra frequently include along with the usual commercial and daily life applications, mathematical games, and recreational problems. The latter, while still on the subject of trade or daily life, involve conditions that are quite unrealistic if not totally absurd. As this book demonstrates, the authors of these problem sets hoped to show that mathematics could both be fun and useful.

Sesiano, Jacques: - Jacques Sesiano taught history of mathematics at the EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in Lausanne.

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