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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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ISSN 1088-9485 (online) ISSN 0273-0979 (print)

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References
  • Argante Ciocci, Luca Pacioli tra Piero della Francesca e Leonardo. Aboca Museum, Sansepolcro, 2009.
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  • J. V. Field, Rediscovering the Archimedean polyhedra: Piero della Francesca, Luca Pacioli, Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Dürer, Daniele Barbaro, and Johannes Kepler, Arch. Hist. Exact Sci. 50 (1997), no. 3-4, 241–289. MR 1457069, DOI 10.1007/BF00374595
  • Luca Pacioli, De divina proportione, Luca Paganinem de Paganinius de Brescia (Antonio Capella), Venice, 1509; Stamperia dell’Officina Bodoni, Verona (Milan), 1956.
  • R. Emmett Taylor, No royal road/Luca Pacioli and his times. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC, 1942.
Additional Information
  • Gerald L. Alexanderson
  • Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California 95053-0290
  • MR Author ID: 24640
  • Email: galexand@math.scu.edu
  • Received by editor(s): March 24, 2010
  • Published electronically: April 28, 2010
  • © Copyright 2010 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 47 (2010), 553-555
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-10-01308-X