Travelling Mathematics - The Fate of Diophantos' Arithmetic
- A. Meskens
- Mathematics
- 27 September 2010
Arithmetic and the beginnings of algebra.- Alexandria ad Aegyptum.- Diophantos and the Arithmetika.- Sleeping beauty in the Dark Ages.- New vistas.- Humanism.- Renaissance or the rebirth of…
Practical mathematics in a commercial metropolis: Mathematical life in late 16th century Antwerp
- A. Meskens, Paul Tytgat
- History
- 12 March 2013
1 Preface.- 2 Introduction.- 3 The Family Coignet.- 4 Peeter Heyns and the Nymphs of the Laurel Tree.- 5 The Arithmetic Teacher and his School.- 6 The Antwerp arithmetic books.- 7 Winegauging.- 8…
Michiel Coignet's contribution to the development of the sector
- A. Meskens
- Economics
- 1 March 1997
Summary The contribution of the Antwerp mathematician and instrument maker Michiel Coignet to the development of the sector is investigated. It will be shown that he invented a rule, the reigle…
Exploring Classical Greek Construction Problems with Interactive Geometry Software
- A. Meskens, Paul Tytgat
- Mathematics
- 6 February 2017
The Genesis of Geometry
- A. Meskens, Paul Tytgat
- Art
- 2017
Many elementary geometry books for secondary schools contain exercises in which a construction with compass and straightedge is called for. In many cases, these are exercises whose history goes back…
Wine-Gauging at Damme [The evidence of a late medieval manuscript]
- A. Meskens, Germain Bonte, J. D. Groot, Mieke De Jonghe, David A King
- Sociology
- 1999
Resume. Jauger les tonneaux de vin dans le port de Damme. Le temoignage d'un manuscrit de la fin de l'epoque medievale. A la fin du Moyen Âge, Damme, Г avant-port de Bruges, etait une importante…
Mathematics education in late sixteenth-century Antwerp
- A. Meskens
- History
- 1 March 1996
Summary In this paper I present a picture of the social status of the Antwerp arithmetic teachers. This requires first a closer look at the Antwerp schoolmaster in general. Because no fewer than…
THE JESUIT MATHEMATICS SCHOOL IN ANTWERP IN THE EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
- A. Meskens
- Economics
- 1 March 1997
Fair stood the wind for France
- A. Meskens
- History
- 2010
Francois Viete was born in Fontenay-le-Comte in 1540. After an education at the Franciscan school of Fontenay, he enrolled at the university of Poitiers in 1558 to study civil and canonical law. It…
The Cinderella of regular polygons
- A. Meskens, Paul Tytgat
- Mathematics
- 2017
Among the regular polygons, the regular heptagon most certainly is Cinderella. Contrary to a triangle, a square, a pentagon or a hexagon, the heptagon is not constructible using compass and…
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