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The Latin Mathematics of Medieval Europe
2016This chapter is about the mathematics that developed in Latin Catholic Europe, circa 800–1480. During this time, the quadrivium, a term which referred to the four subjects—arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy—provided the template for the curricula of the first period of Latin mathematics.
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Mathematics in Hebrew in Medieval Europe
2016This chapter covers mathematics written in Hebrew between the eleventh and sixteenth centuries in Europe. It starts with the practical and scholarly—as well as earlier and later—Hebrew expositions of arithmetic, from Ibn Ezra's foundational twelfth-century The Book of Number, to Levi ben Gershon's early-fourteenth-century arithmetic.
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Mathematics in Medieval Islamic Spain
1995From the seventh to the eleventh century, a large part of present-day Spain and Portugal belonged to the Islamic world. I will use the term “Islamic Spain” to indicate the part of the Iberian peninsula that was under Muslim rule. The term Islamic Spain is not strictly correct, because Spain did not exist in the early Middle Ages, but the important ...
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Mathematics in Ancient and Medieval India
2005Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677), that gentle philosopher of the seventeenth century laid down as his credo “Sedulo curavi, humanas actiones non redere, non lugere, neque detestari, sed intelligere”. He says that when he sets out to interpret the thoughts and history of a bygone age, he obeys the above injunctions set by him for himself — not to ridicule ...
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South Indian Achievements in Medieval Mathematics
2019The development of Hindu mathematics did not come to a standstill after the famous Bhāskarācārya or Bhāskara II (circa 1150 ad) although many scholars believed and still believe that.
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