Fibonacci's Liber abaci : a translation into modern English of Leonardo Pisano's Book of calculation / [L.E. Sigler]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fibonacci, Leonardo, approximately 1170-approximately 1240.

Contributor:

Sigler, L. E.

Series:

Sources and studies in the history of mathematics and physical sciences

Standardized Title:

Liber abaci. English

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Mathematics, Medieval.

Mathematics--Early works to 1800.

Mathematics.

Physical Description:

viii, 636 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Springer, [2002]

Summary:

First published in 1202; Fibonacci's Liber Abaci was one of the most important books on mathematics in the Middle Ages, introducing Arabic numerals and methods throughout Europe. Liber Abaci can be viewed as an encyclopaedia of thirteenth-century mathematics, which developed mathematical tools rigorously and then showed how to apply them to all kinds of situations in business and trade, including conversion of measures and currency, allocations of profit, computation of interest, alloying of currencies, and so forth. As the first translation into a modern language of the Liber Abaci, this book will be of interest to historians of science and all mathematicians interested in the origins of their methods.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [635]-636).

ISBN:

0387954198

OCLC:

48557588