Mathematicians active from roughly the fall of the Western Roman Empire to the Renaissance, spanning the Islamic Golden Age's major advances in algebra and the European scholastic tradition that transmitted and extended ancient mathematics. Belongs here: figures such as Al-Khwarizmi. Does not belong here: Renaissance and Enlightenment mathematicians, filed under Early Modern.
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1. Middle Ages (Wikipedia)
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The most commonly given starting point for the Middle Ages is around 500, with the date of 476 first used by Bruni.
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