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Jacopo da Firenze's Tractatus algorismi and early Italian abbacus culture

Jens Høyrup

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 manuscripts survive, all in Italian, often containing not only what the masters needed in their teaching but also algebra or other advanced mathematical material. A signal feature of the book by Jens Høyrup is the first translation of one of these abbacus manuscripts into English. The abbacus books have long been supposed to be reduced versions of Leonardo Fibonacci's Liber abbaci. Analysis of early abbacus books, not least of the first specimen treating of algebra - Jacopo da Firenze's Tractatus algorismi from 1307 - shows instead that abbacus mathematics was an exponentof a more widespread culture of...

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