TY  - EJOUR
A1  - Husson, Matthieu
TI  - La Tabula tabularum de Jean de Murs et les modèles de l’arithmétique médiévale
T2  - Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes / Journal of Medieval and Humanistic Studies 2014 – 1, n° 27. varia
JO  - Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes / Journal of Medieval and Humanistic Studies (ISSN 2273-0893), 27, 2014 – 1
DO  - 10.15122/isbn.978-2-8124-3516-4.p.0097
SN  - 2273-0893
SP  - 97
EP  - 122
AB  - John of Murs (fl. ca. 1317-1345), while he was a master the Faculty of Arts in Paris in 1321, took upon himself to write a text explaining how to use a multiplication table of two-place sexagesimal numbers. The outcome of the work, although only about 3500 words long, has in fact much more to tell us about medieval arithmetic in an astronomical ­context than we might first expect. The Tabula tabularum presents two particularly interesting features for the historian of mathematics : first, the text is not totally polished so that we can actually follow the different steps of his ­composition and reconstruct John of ­Murs’ train of thought ; second, the author tried, with only partial success, to turn his multiplication table into a universal ­computation tool and thus addressed deep mathematical questions about the nature of numbers and the relationship between arithmetical operations. These two aspects allow us to analyze both the heuristic and creative functions of models in medieval arithmetic.
PY  - 2015
DA  - 2015/01/30
DP  - Classiques Garnier
PB  - Classiques Garnier
CY  - Paris
LA  - fre
UR  - https://shop.staging.classiques-garnier.net/cahiers-de-recherches-medievales-et-humanistes-journal-of-medieval-and-humanistic-studies-2014-1-n-27-varia-la-tabula-tabularum-de-jean-de-murs-et-les-modeles-de-l-arithmetique-medievale-en.html
Y2  - 2025/12/06
ER  -