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Manuel Maximos / Planoudes, 'The So-Called Great Calculation According to the Indians'
Author(s) : Katsiampoura Yanna (31/7/2003)Translation : Loumakis Spyridon
For citation: Katsiampoura Yanna, "Manuel Maximos / Planoudes, 'The So-Called Great Calculation According to the Indians'",Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World, Asia MinorURL: <http://www.ehw.gr/l.aspx?id=7771>
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Treatise on mathematics by Maximos Planoudes, written around 1300 with significant importance for the history of science in Byzantium. It introduced and for the first time made use of Arabic numerals.
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Constantinople
Date
around 1300
1. The So-Called Great Calculation According to the Indians
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