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Jacopo da Firenze’s Tractatus Algorismi and Early Italian Abbacus Culture

In the city republics of Renaissance Italy, it was a common practice among the merchant class to ...

Selected Essays on Pre- and Early Modern Mathematical Practice

This book presents a broad selection of articles mainly published during the last two decades on ...

Mathematics and War

Mathematics has for centuries been stimulated, financed and credited by military purposes. Some m...

Lengths, Widths, Surfaces

In this examination of the Babylonian cuneiform 'algebra' texts, based on a detailed investigatio...

From Hesiod to Saussure, From Hippocrates to Jevons: Volume I

This book is the first of a three-volume set introducing the history of scientific thought (inclu...

From Hesiod to Saussure, From Hippocrates to Jevons: Volume III

This book is the third of a three-volume set introducing the history of scientific thought (inclu...

From Hesiod to Saussure, From Hippocrates to Jevons: Volume II

This book is the second of a three-volume set introducing the history of scientific thought (incl...

Explorations and False Trails

Mathematics and War

Mathematics has for centuries been stimulated, financed and credited by military purposes. Som...

Lengths, Widths, Surfaces

In this examination of the Babylonian cuneiform 'algebra' texts, based on a detailed investiga...

Selected Essays on Pre- and Early Modern Mathematical Practice

This book presents a broad selection of articles mainly published during the last two decades on ...

Selected Essays on Pre- and Early Modern Mathematical Practice

This book presents a broad selection of articles mainly published during the last two decades on ...