Peeping into Fibonacci’s Study Room

Høyrup, Jens

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Peeping into Fibonacci’s Study Room

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Høyrup, Jens
Department Structural Changes in Systems of Knowledge, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Max Planck Society;

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Høyrup, J. (2022). Peeping into Fibonacci’s Study Room. Berlin: Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000A-7EFD-D

Abstract

The following collects observations I made during the reading of Fibonacci’s Liber abbaci in connection with a larger project, “abbacus mathematics analyzed and situated historically between Fibonacci and Stifel”. It shows how attention to the details allow us to learn much about Fibonacci’s way of working. In many respects it depends critically upon the critical edition of the Liber abbaci prepared by Enrico Giusti and upon his separate edition of an earlier version of its chapter 12 – not least on the critical apparatus of both. This, and more than three decades of esteem and friendship,
explain the dedication.