TY - BOOK ID - 8507321 TI - The mathematical works of Leon Battista Alberti AU - Alberti, Leon Battista AU - Williams, Kim. AU - March, Lionel AU - Wassell, Stephen R. AU - Tavernor, Robert. AU - Schofield, Richard. AU - Pintore, Angela. PY - 2010 SN - 3034807473 3034604734 9786612982699 3034604742 1282982699 PB - New York : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472 -- Influence. KW - Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472. KW - Mathematics -- Early works to 1800. KW - Mathematics KW - Physical Sciences & Mathematics KW - Mathematics - General KW - Mathematics. KW - History. KW - History of Mathematical Sciences. KW - Mathematics, general. KW - Math KW - Science KW - Annals KW - Auxiliary sciences of history KW - Alberti, Leon Battista, KW - Influence. KW - Alberti, Leon Battista KW - Albert, Leon Baptiste KW - Alberti, Leo Baptista, KW - Alberti, Leon Batista, KW - Alberti, Leonis Baptiste, KW - Alberti, Leone Battista, KW - Alberti, L. B. KW - Alberti, Battista, KW - אלברטי, ליאון באטיסטה KW - Lepidus, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8507321 AB - Leon Battista Alberti (1404¬–1472) was a highly prolific polymath of the fifteenth century. Although his contributions to architecture and the visual arts are well known and available in good English editions, as are many of his literary and social writings, his mathematical works are not well represented. This present volume was planned to fill that gap, with entirely new English translations and critical commentaries making the works easily accessible for a wide readership of specialists and non-specialists alike. Four texts are included here. Although Alberti’s Commentarii rerum mathematicarum appears to be lost, we have his Ludi matematici . In these “games” Alberti describes twenty practical applications of mathematics in an accessible style. The translation is accompanied by a new transcript of the recently identified manuscript held in the National Library in Florence upon which it was based. In Elementi di pittura, Alberti provides a catalogue of definitions and geometric constructions, using Euclidean references but drawing a distinction between theoria of mathematical entities and praxis of painterly applications. Alberti’s most original mathematical contribution is a late work, De compendis cifris, first discussing the frequency of vowels, consonants, and different groupings in Latin, and then introducing a method of polyalphabetic substitution. Even more original is his enciphered code which permutes four numerals in two-, three-, and four-digit groups. De lunularum quadratura rehearses the classical demonstration of squaring a lune by Hippocrates. ER -