The Rhetoric of Problems in Algebra Texbooks from Pacioli to Euler

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- 1 - The Rhetoric of Problems in Algebra Texbooks from Pacioli to Euler Albrecht Heeffer Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science1 Ghent University Abstract The selection of problems by Euler in his Vollständige Anleitung zur Algebra displays a great familiarity with the typical recreational and practical problems of Renaissance and sixteenth-century algebra books. A detailed study into the sources of Euler reveals that he copied most of his problems from Christoff Rudolff's Coss which was first published in 1525 and reissued in 1553 by Michael Stifel.

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