Medieval Europe’s satanic ciphers: on the genesis of a modern myth
The purpose of this article is to investigate the genesis and growth of a historical canard that can be encountered in numerous popular as well as some scholarly publications devoted to the history of mathematics. According to one of the core elements of this story, the number or symbol for zero was...
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Taylor and Francis
2020
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