In this article, we will focus our attention on an apparently simple technique, that requires only minimal mathematical expertise, but whose discovery is clearly the result of a mathematical way of thinking. We will describe the invention of the double-entry bookkeeping (or partita doppia as it was called in Italian) and we will use it to make a conceptual point about the role of mathematics as the humus from which disciplines as different as operations research, computer science, or data science have evolved.
The merchant and the mathematician: commerce and accounting / Graziano Gentili, Luisa Simonutti, Daniele C. Struppa. - In: JOURNAL OF HUMANISTIC MATHEMATICS. - ISSN 2159-8118. - ELETTRONICO. - 13:(2023), pp. 70-98. [10.5642/jhummath.CDRW3514]
The merchant and the mathematician: commerce and accounting
Graziano Gentili
;Luisa Simonutti;
2023
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In this article, we will focus our attention on an apparently simple technique, that requires only minimal mathematical expertise, but whose discovery is clearly the result of a mathematical way of thinking. We will describe the invention of the double-entry bookkeeping (or partita doppia as it was called in Italian) and we will use it to make a conceptual point about the role of mathematics as the humus from which disciplines as different as operations research, computer science, or data science have evolved.
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