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Notes for Liber abaci

2002
[1] Michael Scott was a philosopher and scholar with scientific interests in the court of Frederick II. He is mentioned in uncomplimentary terms in Dante’s Inferno. There is a park near the river Arno in Pisa named for Michael Scott. In the park one finds a statue representing Leonardo Pisano. The statue was placed in the 19th century and only suggests
Laurence Sigler
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A New Book on Liber Abaci

The Fibonacci Quarterly, 1993
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Needham’s 19 (j) and Fibonacci’s Liber Abaci: A New Approach to the Communication and Transmission of Mathematical Knowledge from China to the West

Trends in the History of Science, 2015
In his monumental Science and Civilisation in China, Joseph Needham focuses on mathematics in subsections (a) to (k) of section 19 in volume III. After evaluating the characteristics and contributions of ancient Chinese mathematics, Needham turns in the tenth subsection: (j) Influences and Transmissions.
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