De Volkskrant Wetenschap heeft een mooie pagina over middeleeuwse manuscripten van werk van Fibonacci, op 22 juni te veilen in de VS (het artikel is niet vrij online, als ik het goed zie).
Daarin geen vermelding van de recente uitgave van het complete Liber abaci, toch interessant voor de nieuwsgierige lezer van wetenschapsbijlagen.:
- L. E. Sigler (2003). Fibonacci’s Liber Abaci. A translation into modern English of Leonardo Pisano’s Book of Calculation. Springer. isbn 0387407375.
- About this book—Table of contents—Reviews
- The introductory chapter by the translator as well as a number of pages from Fibonacci’s book are available on books.google
- “This is the first translaton of the Latin manuscript of Liber abaci into a modern language.” The book appeared in 1202, a second edition in 1228. No mistake here! A massive book as well: the translation is 600 pp. rather small type, figures in margin.
- It is loaded with tons of word problems, and the systematic answers to them.
- This is the father of all Western arithmetics books. For the historical roots of arithmetics content in the Western European way, look them up in this book. The word problem, for example. Of course, Fibonacci got his material from the Muslim world.
- Speaking about characteristics, Fibonacci definitely put his stamp on arithmetics and mathematics, and its didactics!
- Review by A. F. Horadam pdf
- Review by John Hannah [Review appeared in NZMS Newsletter: Dec 2003, No 89, pages 42-44.] pdf