TY - JOUR
T1 - Thus spake al-Khwārizmī
T2 - A translation of the text of Cambridge University Library Ms. Ii.vi.5
AU - Crossley, John N.
AU - Henry, Alan S.
PY - 1990/1/1
Y1 - 1990/1/1
N2 - The rules for manipulation of the Hindu-Arabic numerals 1, 2, 3, ... and 0, otherwise known as algorism, became widely used in the West through Latin translation of Arabic from about the 12th century. Our principal Latin manuscript is Cambridge University Library Ms. Ii.vi.5. This manuscript has been published by Vogel and Yushkevich, but we present the first English translation. We have added a short introduction.
AB - The rules for manipulation of the Hindu-Arabic numerals 1, 2, 3, ... and 0, otherwise known as algorism, became widely used in the West through Latin translation of Arabic from about the 12th century. Our principal Latin manuscript is Cambridge University Library Ms. Ii.vi.5. This manuscript has been published by Vogel and Yushkevich, but we present the first English translation. We have added a short introduction.
KW - al-Khwārizmī
KW - algorism
KW - Hindu-Arabic numerals
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=38249019384&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/0315-0860(90)90048-I
DO - 10.1016/0315-0860(90)90048-I
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:38249019384
VL - 17
SP - 103
EP - 131
JO - Historia Mathematica
JF - Historia Mathematica
SN - 0315-0860
IS - 2
ER -