Mathematical Recreations in the Middle Ages
Jacques Sesiano
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Release Date: 05/02/2024
Genre: Science Nature & Math
Sub-Genre: History
Label: Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes
Language: English
Publisher: Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes
A whimsical examination of math in the Middle Ages.
This book brings together many unusual and entertaining examples of Medieval mathematical exercises. Medieval treatises on arithmetic and algebra frequently include along with the usual commercial and daily life applications, mathematical games, and recreational problems. The latter, while still on the subject of trade or daily life, involve conditions that are quite unrealistic if not totally absurd. As this book demonstrates, the authors of these problem sets hoped to show that mathematics could both be fun and useful.