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Nicolas Chuquet’s algebra in the French context of commercial arithmetic. (L’algébre de Nicolas Chuquet dans le contexte français de l’arithmétique commerciale.) (French. English summary) Zbl 1177.01011

The author examines the algebraic part of the treatise “Triparty en la science des nombres” published in Lyon in 1484 by Nicolas Chuquet. Chuquet’s work was the first manual in commercial mathematics written in France.

MSC:

01A40 History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance
00A06 Mathematics for nonmathematicians (engineering, social sciences, etc.)
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