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  title info:
    title: Jost Bürgi's Aritmetische und Geometrische Progreß Tabulen (1620)
    sub title: Edition and Commentary
  name:
    name part: Clark, Kathleen.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2015
    edition: 1st ed. 2015.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 258 p. 97 illus., 93 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This monograph presents a groundbreaking scholarly treatment of the German mathematician Jost Bürgi’s original work on logarithms, Arithmetische und Geometrische Progreß Tabulen. It provides the first-ever English translation of Bürgi’s text and illuminates his role in the development of the conception of logarithms, for which John Napier is traditionally given priority. High-resolution scans of each page of the his handwritten text are reproduced for the reader and as a means of preserving an important work for which there are very few surviving copies. The book begins with a brief biography of Bürgi to familiarize readers with his life and work, as well as to offer an historical context in which to explore his contributions. The second chapter then describes the extant copies of the Arithmetische und Geometrische Progreß Tabulen, with a detailed description of the copy that is the focus of this book, the 1620 “Graz manuscript”. A complete facsimile of the text is included in the next chapter, along with a corresponding transcription and an English translation; a transcription of a second version of the manuscript (the “Gdansk manuscript”) is included alongside that of the Graz edition so that readers can easily and closely examine the differences between the two. The final chapter considers two important questions about Bürgi’s work, such as who was the copyist of the Graz manuscript and what the relationship is between the Graz and Gdansk versions. Appendices are also included that contain a timeline of Bürgi’s life, the underlying concept of Napier’s construction of logarithms, and scans of all 58 sheets of the tables from Bürgi’s text. Anyone with an appreciation for the history of mathematics will find this book to be an insightful and interesting look at an important and often overlooked work. It will also be a valuable resource for undergraduates taking courses in the history of mathematics, researchers of the history of mathematics, and professors of mathem…
  table of contents: Preface -- A Brief Biography of Jost Bürgi (1522-1632) -- Details of Aritmetische und Geometrische Progreß Tabulen: Printed Tables, Manuscripts, and Mathematical Details -- Aritmetische und Geometrische Progreß Tabulen: Edition, Translation, and Commentary -- Final Perspectives -- Appendix 1: Bürgi Biography at a Glance -- Appendix 2: Napier's Argument and Construction of Logarithms -- Appendix 3: The Tables of the Aritmetische und Geometrische Progreß Tabulen/Sambt gründlichem unterricht/wie solche nützlich in allerley Rechnungen zu gebrauchen/und verstanden werden sol (Bürgi, 1620) -- References.
  note: by Kathleen Clark.
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
    topic: Study and teaching
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: History of Mathematical Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics Education
  classification: QA21-27
  classification: 510.9
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      title: Springer eBooks
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  identifier: 9781493931613
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3161-3
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    record creation date: 151228
    record change date: 20151228074444.0
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