Abstract
Mathematics in the ancient Greek world was highly developed in some fields as we have shown in Chapter 1 but the knowledge passed out of use in the Dark Ages of the Western Christian world. A principal mathematician in the revival of the West was Fibonacci (floruit 1225), who was skilled in algebra and arithmetic and whose problems of the population of rabbits we have discussed in §6.6. Our next authors are Kepler (floruit 1600), an astronomer, with his analysis of the physics of sight (see §15.1), and Harvey (floruit 1625), who, although not a mathematician, attached neat experimental proofs to his statements of new observations. By the time of Descartes (floruit 1625) and Leibniz (floruit 1675), mathematics could be said to have become highly developed.
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Lancaster, H.O. (1994). Applications of Mathematics to Biology and Medicine. In: Quantitative Methods in Biological and Medical Sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2658-1_19
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