How to spell the Greek alphabet letters

Authors

  • Fabio Acerbi CNRS, Paris

Keywords:

Greek alphabet letters, combinatorics, numerical notation, Byzantine mathematics

Abstract

A text contained in a 10th century manuscript and that provides a mathematical reason for spelling the Greek alphabet letters in a specific way is published and discussed.

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References

I. Pérez Martín, “Les Kephalaia de Chariton des Hodèges (Paris, BNF, gr. 1630)”, in P. van Deun – C. Macé (eds.), Encyclopedic Trends in Byzantium? Proceedings of the International Conference held in Leuven, 6-8 May 2009 (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 212), Leuven – Paris – Dudley (MA) 2011, 361-386.

M. Tziatzi-Papagianni, Die Sprüche der sieben Weisen. Zwei byzantinische Sammlungen, Stuttgart – Leipzig 1994.

F. Acerbi – D. Manolova – I. Pérez Martín, “The Source of Nicholas Rhabdas’ Letter to Khatzykes: An Anonymous Arithmetical Treatise in Vat. Barb. gr. 4”, JÖB 68 (2018), 1-37.

M. N. Tod, “The Alphabetic Numeral System in Attica”, ABSA 45 (1950), 126-139.

S. Chrisomalis, Numerical Notation. A Comparative History, Cambridge 2010, 133-147.

F. Ronconi, La traslitterazione dei testi greci (Quaderni della Rivista di Bizantinistica 7), Spoleto 2003, 145-165.

A. Tihon, Πτολεμαίου Πρόχειροι Κανόνες, Les Tables Faciles de Ptolémée, volume 1a, Tables A1–A2 (Publications de l’Institut Orientaliste de Louvain 59a), Louvain-la-Neuve 2011.

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Published

2019-12-01

How to Cite

Acerbi, F. (2019). How to spell the Greek alphabet letters. Estudios Bizantinos, 7, 119–130. Retrieved from https://erevistas.publicaciones.uah.es/ojs/index.php/ebizantinos/article/view/1791

Issue

Vol. 7 (2019)

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