“According to Adam Ries, that Comes to …” About Fusti, Freight, and Cartage

Ralf Korn () and Bernd Luderer ()
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Ralf Korn: TU Kaiserslautern
Bernd Luderer: TU Chemnitz

Chapter 6 in Money and Mathematics, 2021, pp 21-24 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Even 500 year old tasks of the German reckoner Adam Ries are still of great interest today. They show how practice-oriented this medieval master of arithmetic was, who can quite rightly be called a business mathematician.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-34677-5_6

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