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Gernardus was a 13th-century magister (master) and the author of the Latin arithmetical treatise Algorismus demonstratus.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 26 relations: Boethius, Edward Grant, Ernst Zinner, Euclid, Fraction, Georg Cantor, George Sarton, Gerard of Brussels, Gustaf Eneström, Integer, Jens Høyrup, Johannes Schöner, Jordanus de Nemore, Latin, Louis Charles Karpinski, Magister degree, Mathematical notation, Menso Folkerts, Middle Ages, Nuremberg, Pierre Duhem, Regiomontanus, Suzan Rose Benedict, University of Paris, Vienna, Vienna, Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, MS 5203.

  2. 13th-century mathematicians

Boethius

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, commonly known simply as Boethius (Latin: Boetius; 480–524 AD), was a Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, polymath, historian, and philosopher of the Early Middle Ages.

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Edward Grant

Edward Grant (April 6, 1926 – June 21, 2020) was an American historian of medieval science.

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Ernst Zinner

Ernst Zinner (2 February 1886 in Goldberg, Silesia – 30 August 1970) was a German astronomer and noted historian of astronomy.

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Euclid

Euclid (Εὐκλείδης; BC) was an ancient Greek mathematician active as a geometer and logician.

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Fraction

A fraction (from fractus, "broken") represents a part of a whole or, more generally, any number of equal parts.

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Georg Cantor

Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor (– 6 January 1918) was a mathematician who played a pivotal role in the creation of set theory, which has become a fundamental theory in mathematics.

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George Sarton

George Alfred Leon Sarton (31 August 1884 – 22 March 1956) was a Belgian-American chemist and historian.

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Gerard of Brussels

Gerard of Brussels (Gérard de Bruxelles, Gerardus Bruxellensis) was an early thirteenth-century geometer and philosopher known primarily for his Latin book Liber de motu (On Motion), which was a pioneering study in kinematics, probably written between 1187 and 1260. Gernardus and Gerard of Brussels are 13th-century mathematicians.

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Gustaf Eneström

Gustaf Hjalmar Eneström (5 September 1852 – 10 June 1923) was a Swedish mathematician, statistician and historian of mathematics known for introducing the Eneström index, which is used to identify Euler's writings.

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Integer

An integer is the number zero (0), a positive natural number (1, 2, 3,...), or the negation of a positive natural number (−1, −2, −3,...). The negations or additive inverses of the positive natural numbers are referred to as negative integers.

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Jens Høyrup

Jens Egede Høyrup, born 1943 in Copenhagen, is a Danish historian of mathematics, specializing in pre-modern and early modern mathematics, ancient Mesopotamian mathematics in particular.

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Johannes Schöner

Johannes Schöner (16 January 1477, in Karlstadt am Main – 16 January 1547, in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg) (aka, Johann Schönner, Johann Schoener, Jean Schönner, Joan Schoenerus) was a German polymath.

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Jordanus de Nemore

Jordanus de Nemore (fl. 13th century), also known as Jordanus Nemorarius and Giordano of Nemi, was a thirteenth-century European mathematician and scientist.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Louis Charles Karpinski

Louis Charles Karpinski (5 August 1878Who's who in Polish America. (1943). United States: Harbinger House. p. 195 – 25 January 1956) was an American mathematician.

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Magister degree

A magister degree (also magistar, female form: magistra; from magister, "teacher") is an academic degree used in various systems of higher education.

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Mathematical notation

Mathematical notation consists of using symbols for representing operations, unspecified numbers, relations, and any other mathematical objects and assembling them into expressions and formulas.

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Menso Folkerts

Menso Folkerts (born 22 June 1943) is a German mathematician and writer of popular science books.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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Nuremberg

Nuremberg (Nürnberg; in the local East Franconian dialect: Nämberch) is the largest city in Franconia, the second-largest city in the German state of Bavaria, and its 544,414 (2023) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest city in Germany.

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Pierre Duhem

Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem (9 June 1861 – 14 September 1916) was a French theoretical physicist who worked on thermodynamics, hydrodynamics, and the theory of elasticity.

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Regiomontanus

Johannes Müller von Königsberg (6 June 1436 – 6 July 1476), better known as Regiomontanus, was a mathematician, astrologer and astronomer of the German Renaissance, active in Vienna, Buda and Nuremberg.

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Suzan Rose Benedict

Suzan Rose Benedict (November 29, 1873 – April 8, 1942), sometimes spelled Susan Rose Benedict, was the first woman awarded a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Michigan and had a long teaching career at Smith College.

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University of Paris

The University of Paris (Université de Paris), known metonymically as the Sorbonne, was the leading university in Paris, France, from 1150 to 1970, except for 1793–1806 during the French Revolution.

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Vienna

Vienna (Wien; Austro-Bavarian) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria.

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Vienna, Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, MS 5203

Vienna ÖNB 5203 is a fifteenth-century astronomical multiple-text (and multi-graphical), miscellany manuscript conserved at the Austrian National Library (Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek).

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See also

13th-century mathematicians

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gernardus

Also known as Algorismus demonstratus, Algorithmus demonstratus.