Capitalism and arithmetic : the new math of the 15th century, including the full text of the Treviso arithmetic of 1478, translated by David Eugene Smith
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Capitalism and arithmetic : the new math of the 15th century, including the full text of the Treviso arithmetic of 1478, translated by David Eugene Smith
Open Court, 1987
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Bibliography: p. 305-339
Includes index
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"In Mr. Swetz's learned and engrossing commentary on the text, you can find facts that will impress your boss and amaze your friends, such as the mathematical origins of the words 'counter, ' 'banks, ' and 'digits.' The rich historical details support a compelling account of how mercantile capitalism in the Venetian republic of the early Renaissance crucially influenced the evolution of mathematics and how mathematics helped the rise of capitalism."
--Wall Street Journal
by "Nielsen BookData"
