A Comparative Study of the Early Treatises Introducing Into Europe the Hindu Art of Reckoning (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Suzan Rose Benedict

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0365871028 ISBN 13: 9780365871026

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from A Comparative Study of the Early Treatises Introducing Into Europe the Hindu Art of Reckoning

In any study of the development of human thought, emphasis is justly laid upon the periods of great discovery, while the centuries in' which, through Slow evolution, were built the foundations for those discoveries are passed over with a word. Such a period in the development Of mathe matics we find in the years Of transition from the dark ages to the renaissance, when the introduction into Europe of a convenient numerical symbolism furnished one of the most useful tools for the great works of a Descartes or a Newton.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0365871028
• ISBN 13: 9780365871026
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136