Numerals and arithmetic in the Middle Ages
By: Charles Burnett
Series: Variorum collected studies series -- CS967; Collected studies -- CS967.
Publisher: Ashgate Variorum
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781409403685
Subjects: Numerals; Medieval Mathematics; Numeration; History
Description: This volume brings together articles on the different numeral forms used in the Middle Ages, and their use in mathematical and other contexts. Some pieces study the introduction of Hindu-Arabic numerals into Western Europe, documenting the different forms in which they are found.
Notes: A collection of previously published articles.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The abacus of Echternach in ca. 1000 A.D.; title: Abbon de Fleury, abaci doctor; title: Algorismi vel helcep decentior est diligentia : the arithmetic of Adelard of Bath and his circle; title: Ten or forty? A confusing numerical symbol in the Middle Ages; title: Indian numerals in the Mediterranean basin in the twelfth century, with special references to the eastern forms; title: The use of Arabic numberals among the three language cultures of Norman Sicily; title: Why we read Arabic numerals backwards; title: The Toledan regule (Liber alchorismi, part II) : a twelfth-century arithmetical miscellany / with Ji-Wei Zhao and Kurt Lampe; title: Learning Indian arithmetic in the early thirteenth century; title: Latin alphanumerical notation, and annotation in Italian, in the twelfth century : MS London, British Library, Harley 5402; title: Fibonacci's method of the Indians.