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The Triparty — Second Part

In: Nicolas Chuquet, Renaissance Mathematician

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  • Graham Flegg
  • Cynthia Hay
  • Barbara Moss

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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).

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  • Graham Flegg & Cynthia Hay & Barbara Moss, 1985. "The Triparty — Second Part," Springer Books, in: Graham Flegg & Cynthia Hay & Barbara Moss (ed.), Nicolas Chuquet, Renaissance Mathematician, chapter 0, pages 93-142, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-94-009-6502-7_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-6502-7_4
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