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'He Advanced Him 200 Lambs of Gold': The Pamiers Manuscript - Bibliography

Author(s): 
Randy K. Schwartz (Schoolcraft College)

Biggs, Norman, “Mathematics of Currency and Exchange: Arithmetic at the End of the Thirteenth Century,” BSHM Bulletin: Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics 24:2 (Jul. 2009), pp. 67-77.

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Davis, Natalie Zemon, “Sixteenth-Century Arithmetics on the Business Life,” Journal of the History of Ideas 21:1 (Jan.-Mar. 1960), pp. 18-48.

Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology and WGBH Interactive, “Michael of Rhodes: A Medieval Mariner and His Manuscript” (2005)
http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/michaelofrhodes

Goetzmann, William N., “Fibonacci and the Financial Revolution,” pp. 123-143 in William N. Goetzmann and K. Geert Rouwenhorst, eds., The Origins of Value: The Financial Innovations that Created Modern Capital Markets (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005).

Høyrup, Jens, “Questions to the Historiography of Arabic Mathematics Derived from Abbaco Mathematics,” pp. 217-232 in Actes du Huitième Colloque Maghrébin sur l’Histoire des Mathématiques Arabes, Tunis, les 18-19-20 Décembre 2004 (Tunis, Tunisia: Tunisian Association of Mathematical Sciences, 2006).

Hughes, Barnabas, Fibonacci’s De Practica Geometrie (New York: Springer Verlag, 2008).

Labarthe, Marie-Hélène, “Les Règles de Compagnie, dans les Premières Arithmétiques Imprimées des Espagnes: De la Règle Marchande à l’Outil Mathématique,” Revue d’Histoire des Mathématiques 11 (2005), pp. 257–313.

Math Forum, “Lattice Multiplication,” 1996
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PedagoNet, “Lattice Multiplication,” uploaded on November 18, 2006
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6uiz8YdA7w

Sanford, Vera, The History and Significance of Certain Standard Problems in Algebra (New York: AMS Press, 1972; originally published 1927).

Schwartz, Randy K., “Combining Strands of Many Colors: Episodes from Medieval Islam for the Mathematics Classroom,” Loci: Convergence, Vol. 7 (August 2010), DOI: 10.4169/loci003546,
http://mathdl.maa.org/mathDL/46/?pa=content&sa=viewDocument&nodeId=3546

Schwartz, Randy K., “Adapting the Medieval ‘Rule of Double False Position’ to the Modern Classroom,” Chapter 5 (pp. 29-38) in Dick Jardine and Amy Shell-Gellasch (eds.), Mathematical Time Capsules: Historical Modules for the Mathematics Classroom (Washington, DC: Mathematical Association of America, 2011).

Sesiano, Jacques, “Une Arithmétique Médiévale en Langue Provençale,” Centaurus 27:1 (1984), pp. 26-75. DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0498.1984.tb00753.x

Sesiano, Jacques, “The Appearance of Negative Solutions in Mediaeval Mathematics,” Archive for History of Exact Sciences 32:2 (1985), pp. 105-150.

Sigler, Laurence E., Fibonacci’s Liber Abaci: A Translation into Modern English of Leonardo Pisano’s Book of Calculation (New York: Springer Verlag, 2002).

Smith, David Eugene, History of Mathematics, Vol. 2, “Special Topics of Elementary Mathematics” (New York: Dover, 1968).

Spiesser, Maryvonne, “Nombre et Pratiques Calculatoires dans la Tradition Commerciale du XVe Siecle: L’Exemple des ‘Arithmetiques’ du Sud de la France,” in Actes du Colloque “La Pensée Numérique” (Peyrasq, France, 2002). Available from
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Spiesser, Maryvonne, “Les Manuels d’Arithmétique pour les Marchands dans la France du XVe Siècle,” Bulletin de l’APMEP [Association des Professeurs de Mathématiques de l' Enseignement Public] 444 (2003), pp. 32-50. Available from
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Spiesser, Maryvonne, Une Arithmétique Commerciale du XVe Siècle: Le Compendy de la Praticque des Nombres de Barthélemy de Romans (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2004).

Swetz, Frank J., 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 (La Salle, IL: Open Court, 1987)

Verlinden, O., “Markets and Fairs,” Chapter III (pp. 119-153) in Michael Moïssey Postan, Edwin Ernest Rich, and Edward Miller, eds., The Cambridge Economic History of Europe, Second edition (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1963), vol. 3 (Economic Organization and Policies in the Middle Ages).

Weber, Eugen, “Who Sang the Marseillaise?,” pp. 92-102 in My France: Politics, Culture, Myth (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991).

Randy K. Schwartz (Schoolcraft College), "'He Advanced Him 200 Lambs of Gold': The Pamiers Manuscript - Bibliography," Convergence (July 2012), DOI:10.4169/loci003888