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Hints:
the Muslim caliphate
the Song Chinese Empire
Leonardo of Pisa or Fibonacci
Pisan
the Liber Abaci, The Book of Calculation.
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Struggle to do business with seven different forms of coinage in circulation, even the simplest transaction could be a headache, requiring the use of an abacus.
By comparison, economic life in the eastern world in the Muslim caliphate or the Song Chinese Empire was far more advanced.
To discover modern finance, backward Europe needed to import it.
Enter a young mathematician called Leonardo of Pisa or Fibonacci.
The son of a Pisan Customs Official based in what is now Algeria, Fibonacci is best remembered today for his sequence of numbers that mimic the properties of nature.
But the famous sequence was only one of many Eastern mathematical ideas
that Fibonacci introduced to Europe with his path-breaking book the Liber Abaci, The Book of Calculation.
Even more important was his demonstration of the superiority of Arabic numerals over Roman numerals.
And crucially, nearly all Fibonacci's examples related to business.(在比萨这商人们做生意)
要应付七种不同的流通造币
即便最简单的交易也会变得复杂
故而不得不求助算盘
相比之下 伊斯兰帝国
及中国宋朝的经济生活
要先进的多
为了发展现代的金融学
落后的欧洲需要向东方学习
一个叫莱昂纳多的比萨小伙出现了
又名斐波那契
斐波那契是比萨一位负责
古代阿尔及利亚地区的海关官员的儿子
他最为当代人熟知的成果是
以他命名的奇妙的自然数数列
斐波那契通过他跨时代的著作
《算经》 即《算盘书》
将重多东方数学理论引入欧洲
这个著名的数列
不过是其中之一
他更重要的贡献是
向人们证明了阿拉伯数字
比罗马数字更优越
至关重要的是
斐波那契举得例子几乎都与商业有关 |
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发表于 2016-8-2 13:35:28