Nicolas Chuquet, Renaissance Mathematician: A study with extensive translation of Chuquet's mathematical manuscript completed in 1484

by Graham Flegg, C. Hay, and B. Moss

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My attention was first drawn to Chuquet' s mathematical manuscript whilst undertaking the necessary research for the preparation of the Open University's History of Mathematics course, presented initially in 1974. It was whilst editing the English edition of Math~matiques et Math~maticiens (P. Dedron and J. Itard, trans. J. Field) that I noted that it was stated that "the whole manuscript *** comprises 324 folios, i. e. 648 pages", and that, in addition to the Triparty (by which the work is generally known) the manuscript includes sections on problems, on the application of algebraic methods to geometry, and on conunercial
  • ISBN13 9789400965041
  • Publish Date 22 October 2011 (first published 30 November 1984)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country NL
  • Imprint Springer
  • Edition Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1985
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 388
  • Language English