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In Europe, during the middle ages, without knowledge of Latin and Greek, you probably would get only a rudimentary education. Whatever your European nationality if you were not a member of the upper-class or a novice monk, the riddles would mean nothing to you. With the invention of the movable type printing press by German Johannes Gutenberg (1450), more books became available to people. However, they were still written in Latin and Greek. Books needed to be translated into the vernacular (the native language of a particular population).
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Nowlan, R.A. (2017). Master and Student. In: Masters of Mathematics. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-893-8_36
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