History of Science (Outside a Series)
Karl der Grosse und sein Nachwirken. 1200 Jahre Kultur und Wissenschaft in Europa
Band II, Mathematisches Wissen
This volume includes 35 papers that deal with the heritage of Charlemagne in the mathematical sciences. It focuses on those fields which Alcuin of York and others introduced at the court school at Aachen founded some 1200 years ago and that continue to play a role in contemporary mathematics. The emphasis is on exemplary topics in modern geometry combinatorics operations research number theory and related fields. Selected topics in the history of mathematics since the Carolingian renewal are also covered.
Karl der Grosse und sein Nachwirken. 1200 Jahre Kultur und Wissenschaft in Europa
Band I Wissen und Weltbild
This volume seeks to elucidate the intellectual world under Emperor Charlemagne its precursors and role models as well as the patterns and details of the educational reforms that set in train what has been called the Carolingian Renaissance. Against this broad background of intellectual stirrings and reform efforts the volume focuses on the scholarly activities during Carolingian times (the Artes Liberales) on the literary juridical and political sphere on the development of the church and the evolution of monasticism and their role in preserving the heritage of antiquity.