Algorismus (Norse text)

Algorismus is a short treatise on mathematics, written in Old Icelandic. It is the oldest text on mathematics in a Scandinavian language and survives in the early fourteenth-century manuscript Hauksbók, a large book written and compiled by Icelanders and taken to Norway during the later part of the 13th century by Haukur Erlendsson.[1] It primarily consists of a translation of Carmen de Algorismo by Alexander of Villedieu from c. 1200, which was in turn translated from the works of al-Khwarismi, and which, with Liber Abaci by Fibonacci of 1202, and Algorismus Vulgaris by De Sacrobosco of 1230 formed the "three main Latin algorithmic works in the Middle Ages".[2]

References

  1. ^ Bekken, Otto B.; Nielsen, Marit A.; Thorvaldsen, Steinar (2010). "Algorismus i Hauksbok: En norrøn regnetekst fra 1300-tallet". Eureka Digital. 2–2010. hdl:10037/3074.
  2. ^ Etheridge, Christian (2015). "The Evidence for Islamic Scientific Works in Medieval Iceland". In Heß, Cordelia; Adams, Jonathan (eds.). Fear and Loathing in the North: Jews and Muslims in Medieval Scandinavia and the Baltic Region (PDF). De Gruyter. pp. 49–74. doi:10.1515/9783110346473. ISBN 9783110346473. See section 3.12 Algorismus, pp. 63–65, which calls it "one of the most important mathematical treatises in medieval Iceland".


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