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100	1		_aWilliams, Kim. _eeditor.
245	1	4	_aThe Mathematical Works of Leon Battista Alberti _h[electronic resource] / _cedited by Kim Williams, Lionel March, Stephen R. Wassell.
264		1	_aBasel : _bSpringer Basel, _c2010.
300			_aX, 221p. _bonline resource.
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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505	0		_aLeon Battista Alberti, Ex ludis rerum mathematicarum -- Leon Battista Alberti, Elementi di pittura -- Leon Battista Alberti, De componendis cifris -- Leon Battista Alberti, De lunularum quadratura.
520			_aLeon Battista Alberti (1404¬–1472) was a highly prolific polymath of the fifteenth century. Although his contributions to architecture and the visual arts are well known and available in good English editions, as are many of his literary and social writings, his mathematical works are not well represented. This present volume was planned to fill that gap, with entirely new English translations and critical commentaries making the works easily accessible for a wide readership of specialists and non-specialists alike. Four texts are included here. Although Alberti’s Commentarii rerum mathematicarum appears to be lost, we have his Ludi matematici . In these “games” Alberti describes twenty practical applications of mathematics in an accessible style. The translation is accompanied by a new transcript of the recently identified manuscript held in the National Library in Florence upon which it was based. In Elementi di pittura, Alberti provides a catalogue of definitions and geometric constructions, using Euclidean references but drawing a distinction between theoria of mathematical entities and praxis of painterly applications. Alberti’s most original mathematical contribution is a late work, De compendis cifris, first discussing the frequency of vowels, consonants, and different groupings in Latin, and then introducing a method of polyalphabetic substitution. Even more original is his enciphered code which permutes four numerals in two-, three-, and four-digit groups. De lunularum quadratura rehearses the classical demonstration of squaring a lune by Hippocrates.
650		0	_aMathematics.
650		0	_aMathematics_$xHistory.
650	1	4	_aMathematics.
650	2	4	_aHistory of Mathematics.
650	2	4	_aMathematics, general.
700	1		_aMarch, Lionel. _eeditor.
700	1		_aWassell, Stephen R. _eeditor.
710	2		_aSpringerLink (Online service)
773	0		_tSpringer eBooks
776	0	8	_iPrinted edition: _z9783034604734
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0346-0474-1
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