The Triparty — First Part

Graham Flegg, Cynthia Hay and Barbara Moss

Chapter Chapter 3 in Nicolas Chuquet, Renaissance Mathematician, 1985, pp 27-92 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The first part of Chuquet’s Triparty is concerned with arithmetic and covers, for the most part, similar ground to that in many of the early printed arithmetics. It has four chapters, the first two of which deal respectively with whole numbers and fractions, the latter being called “broken numbers”. The third chapter, which is rather more in the scholastic tradition of Boethius and the mediaeval universities, deals with progressions, the classification of numbers, and proportions. The fourth comprises a collection of rules or methods for the arithmetical position, a rule for solving certain indeterminate problems, and the rule of intermediate numbers. It is the last of these rules which Chuquet specifically claims for himself as an original contribution in the Triparty.

Keywords: Intermediate Number; False Position; Algebraic Notation; Perfect Number; Mixed Number (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1985
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-6502-7_3

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