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Simon Jacob's Rechenbuch

Author(s): 
Frank Swetz, Victor Katz

This is the title page of the 1599 edition of the Rechenbuch of Simon Jacob (d. 1564), a Rechenmeister of the sixteenth century.  This was a commercial arithmetic text, in which the basic laws of arithmetic were applied to many practical problems. 

 

 

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Frank Swetz, Victor Katz, "Simon Jacob's Rechenbuch," Convergence (November 2008)

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