Jacopo da Firenze’s Tractatus Algorismi and Early Italian Abbacus Culture

• Main Author: Høyrup, Jens (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2007.
• Series: Science Networks. Historical Studies ; 34
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; History.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; Applications of Mathematics.

In the city republics of Renaissance Italy, it was a common practice among the merchant class to send sons for a two-year course of study at an "abbacus school", where they learned practical, mostly commercial mathematics, known as abbaco. From this school institution, several hundred manu...