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stoutfellowThere is a scene in Caprice and Rondo which takes place near the Italian town of Treviso. When I read that, something began to niggle at me. Treviso. I know that name. Something historical. The Treviso Colloquy? The Edict of Treviso? Knowing that it would bother me until I pinned it down, I went online, to the Wikipedia article on the town. Birthplace of Totila the Ostrogoth... ducal seat under the Lombards... ceded itself to Venice in... near site of World War II battle of... Nothing - until, finally, at the very bottom, a reference to the Treviso Arithmetic.
Of course, of course. I recently read Keith Devlin's biography of Fibonacci, The Man of Numbers. Fibonacci's publication of Liber abaci triggered a flood of arithmetic textbooks, and the Treviso Arithmetic was one of the first and most important of those.
:is relieved:
Of course, of course. I recently read Keith Devlin's biography of Fibonacci, The Man of Numbers. Fibonacci's publication of Liber abaci triggered a flood of arithmetic textbooks, and the Treviso Arithmetic was one of the first and most important of those.
:is relieved:
