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history of algebra

  • mathematicians of the Greco-Roman world
    In algebra: Commerce and abacists in the European Renaissance

    …“new” numerals became known as abacists, regardless of whether they used the numerals for calculating and recording transactions or employed an abacus for doing the actual calculations. Soon numerous abacist schools sprang up to teach the sons of Italian merchants the “new math.”

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