Abstract
In the absence of the Arabic text of al-Khwārizmī'sArithmetic (ca. 825), which has not yet been found, the oldest Latin adaptations from the twelfth century are the only evidence documenting the genesis and the first spreading of a decimal arithmetic that uses nine figures and zero, i.e. the Indian reckoning known in the Middle Ages asalgorismus. This paper studies these texts, their content, their sources, and identifies their authors and the milieus in which they were written.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
History and Philosophy of Science,Philosophy,History
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