Abraham Joseph ben Simon Wolf Menz () was an eighteenth century

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and

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Frankfurt Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...

. He wrote an elementary textbook on mathematics entitled ''Reshit Limmudim'', in three parts: ''Kelale handasah'', the general rules of

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; ''Yesodot ha-gematriot'', the elements of

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; and ''Yesod ha-tekunah'', on

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. Only the first part was published (Berlin, 1775).

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