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The principal aim of this paper is to shed some light on the algebraic content of the Tratado da arte de arismetica by Bento Fernandes, which was published in Porto in 1555 and is the earliest treatise of a Portuguese author that has come down to us in which algebra is studied. Since it therefore constitutes an important testimony of the state of development of algebra in Portugal in the middle of...
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