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I shall not object to those who see the preceding chapter as an “almost insupportably detailed description of the Liber abbaci”, to quote Cantor’s characterization [1892: 31] of his own much shorter analysis. Now, however, we shall turn to the history of abbacus mathematics proper, divided into periods – the “real story” instead of the “Fibonacci story”.
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Høyrup, J. (2024). The Real Story in Select Detail. In: The World of the Abbaco. Frontiers in the History of Science. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25164-1_4
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