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... Italy had the greatest and most productive mathe- matician of the thirteenth century , Leonardo Fibonacci , England had in Sacrobosco an author of the most popular work on the sphere that had appeared up to that time , and also of a ...
... Italy had the greatest and most productive mathe- matician of the thirteenth century , Leonardo Fibonacci , England had in Sacrobosco an author of the most popular work on the sphere that had appeared up to that time , and also of a ...
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... Italy . It gave to the world the all - round genius Leonardo da Vinci ; Cardan , author of a work popularly known as the Ars Magna , a treatise which was devoted solely to algebra and which set forth the theory of alge- braic equations ...
... Italy . It gave to the world the all - round genius Leonardo da Vinci ; Cardan , author of a work popularly known as the Ars Magna , a treatise which was devoted solely to algebra and which set forth the theory of alge- braic equations ...
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... Italy and France . A notable group of arith- meticians appeared in Germany at this time , Köbel and Adam Riese being two of the most outstanding . Germany also pro- duced three strong algebraists , -Rudolff , Stifel , and Scheubel ; and ...
... Italy and France . A notable group of arith- meticians appeared in Germany at this time , Köbel and Adam Riese being two of the most outstanding . Germany also pro- duced three strong algebraists , -Rudolff , Stifel , and Scheubel ; and ...
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