by Raffaele Danna (University of Cambridge) 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 The ten digits we use to represent numbers are everywhere in our modern world. But they reached a widespread diffusion in the ‘west’ only at a relatively late stage. The positional numeral system was central for the development of … Continue reading The spread of Hindu-Arabic numerals in the tradition of European practical mathematics
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