The Triparty — Second Part

Graham Flegg, Cynthia Hay and Barbara Moss

Chapter Chapter 4 in Nicolas Chuquet, Renaissance Mathematician, 1985, pp 93-142 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The second part of the Triparty is concerned with roots. It begins with an introduction in which Chuquet defines various kinds of roots including surds and roots of surds, here called “compound roots”. It is in this introduction that we first encounter Chuquet’s special notation for roots along with the use of underlining to indicate collections of terms which we would today put in brackets. Thus, in the last line of folio 46r. below, there is the expression which would now be written as $$ \sqrt {{14 + \sqrt {{180}} }} $$ or as ✓(14 + ✓180).

Keywords: Fractional Power; Compound Root; Renaissance Mathematician (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1985
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-6502-7_4

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