Alexander of Villedieu

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Alexander of Villedieu[1] was a French author and a mathematician. He was born around 1175 in Villedieu-les-Poêles in Normandy and died in 1240.

He was a Franciscan and writer of educational works, including the Doctrinale puerorum, a versified grammar which became a standard text, and the Carmen de Algorismo, on arithmetic, which was also widely used.[2] He was a Master of the University of Paris.[3]

[edit] References

  • Dietrich Reichling editor (1893), Das Doctrinale des Alexander de Villa-Dei. Reprint 1974.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Alexander Villedieu, Alexander de Villedieu, Alexandre de Villedieu, Alexander de Villa Dei, Alexandre de Dol, Alexander Dolensis.
  2. ^ The Doctrinale was in leonine verse, the Carmen in dactylic hexameters.[1]
  3. ^ [2]

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