Product Description: "The Development of Mathematics in Medieval Europe" complements the previous collection of articles by Menso Folkerts, "Essays on Early Medieval Mathematics", and deals with the development of mathematics in Europe from the 12th century to about 1500...read more

Product Description: This work deals with the mathematics of the medieval West between around 500 and 1100, the period before the translations from Arabic and Greek had their impact. Four of the studies appear for the first time in English. Among the topics treated are: the Roman surveyors (agrimensores); recreational mathematics in the period of Bede and Alcuin; geometrical texts compiled in Corbie and Lorraine from Latin sources from late antiquity; the abacus at the time of Gerbert (pope Sylvester II); and a board-game invented in the first half of the 11th century (the "Rithmimachia") to help people to learn mathematics...read more

Product Description: The contributors and their methods are diverse. Their papers deal with subjects such as anamorphic art, the geometry of Durer, musical works of Mozart and Beethoven, the history of negative numbers, the development of mathematical notation, and efforts to bring mathematics to bear on problems in commerce and engineering...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)