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Article Dans Une Revue Erudition and the Republic of Letters Année : 2019

Coping with the Tiny: Measures, Computations, and Reasoning with Small Amounts in Jean des Murs’s Quadrivial Works

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Jean des Murs's contributions in geometry and arithmetic are numerous, diverse, and complex. They cannot be done justice in the context of a single essay. Moreover, some depth of analysis is required in order to address general questions of Jean des Murs's working habits and relations to his sources. Under these circumstances, I have chosen to focus on a specific question: in how far do Jean des Murs's mathematical works reflect a persistent effort throughout his career to address the various issues related to small amounts? Focusing on this particularly significant issue will give me the opportunity to cover a representative sample of Jean des Murs's quadrivial works from a specific perspective and thus complement the intellectual portrait presented in this volume.
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Matthieu Husson. Coping with the Tiny: Measures, Computations, and Reasoning with Small Amounts in Jean des Murs’s Quadrivial Works. Erudition and the Republic of Letters, 2019, 4 (1), pp.146-165. ⟨10.1163/24055069-00401007⟩. ⟨hal-02551998⟩

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