Gerasa (Jerash)
Decapolis
Gerasa, modern Jerash in northwestern Jordan, was a city of the Decapolis well preserved from the Roman period. It was the birthplace of the Neopythagorean mathematician Nicomachus, author of the Introduction to Arithmetic.
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Teachers who lived here
Works composed here
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Introductio arithmetica
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Harmonicum enchiridion
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Excerpta
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Problemata arithmetica
Ideas shaped here
Concepts most frequently discussed in the works composed at Gerasa (Jerash). Click any to trace the idea across time and place.