Session 3 :: Between Antiquity and Renaissance

Repetitio :: Antiquity Narratio :: L'histoire de fille mecanique Questio :: What is a digit ? Lectio :: Dark ages al-Khwarizmi Fibonacci ...

What is a digit ?

digit (n.) in English since late 14c., "numeral below 10," from Latin digitus (french: "doigt") "finger or toe" (also with secondary meanings relating to counting and n...

any of the Arabic numerals 1 to 9 and usually the symbol 0 one of the elements that combine to form numbers in a system other than the decimal system di...

a symbol denoting/representing a natural number ("a numeral") we'll work with four systems of numerals roman: I, V, X, L, C, D, M decimal: 0, 1, ...

persian scholar from golden-age of islamic science his name Latinized as "Algorithmi" (Port. "guarismo" and Spanish "algarismo" mean digit) since 820 A.D. the as...

8th century - 12th century :: golden-age of islamic science integration of Persian and Arabic into one cultural realm translation of Greek and Roman works into a...

book about solving quadratic equations principial mathematical text-book of European Universities until 16th century al-ğabr ("forcing", "restoring") operation :: ...

If some one says: "You divide ten into two parts: multiply the one by itself; it will be equal to the other taken eighty-one times." Computation: You say, ten less a thing, mu...

Kitāb al-Jam‘ wat-Tafrīq bi-Ḥisāb al-Hi("The Book of Addition and Subtraction According to the Hindu Calculation") Arabic original of the book has been lost 12th ce...

"the most talented Western mathematician of the Middle Ages" his book Liber Abaci (1202) popularized the Hindu-Arabic numeral systems in Europe travelled extensivel...

"Suppose a newly-born pair of rabbits, one male, one female, are put in a field. Rabbits are able to mate at the age of one month so that at the end of its second month a fem...

"The nine Indian figures are: 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 With these nine figures, and with the sign 0 which the Arabs call zephir any number whatsoever is written..." Leonardo Fibonacci...

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