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Sourcebook in the Mathematics of Medieval Europe and North Africa
Victor J. Katz
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Description for Sourcebook in the Mathematics of Medieval Europe and North Africa
Hardback. Editor(s): Katz, Victor J.; Hughes, Barnabas; Folkerts, Menso; Wagner, Roi; Berggren, J. Lennart. Num Pages: 592 pages, 250 line illus. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KB; 3F; 3H; HBLC1; PBB; PBX; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 192 x 265 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1416.
Medieval Europe was a meeting place for the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic civilizations, and the fertile intellectual exchange of these cultures can be seen in the mathematical developments of the time. This sourcebook presents original Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic sources of medieval mathematics, and shows their cross-cultural influences. Most of the Hebrew and Arabic sources appear here in translation for the first time. Readers will discover key mathematical revelations, foundational texts, and sophisticated writings by Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic-speaking mathematicians, including Abner of Burgos's elegant arguments proving results on the conchoid--a curve previously unknown in medieval Europe; Levi ben ... Read more
Medieval Europe was a meeting place for the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic civilizations, and the fertile intellectual exchange of these cultures can be seen in the mathematical developments of the time. This sourcebook presents original Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic sources of medieval mathematics, and shows their cross-cultural influences. Most of the Hebrew and Arabic sources appear here in translation for the first time. Readers will discover key mathematical revelations, foundational texts, and sophisticated writings by Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic-speaking mathematicians, including Abner of Burgos's elegant arguments proving results on the conchoid--a curve previously unknown in medieval Europe; Levi ben ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
592
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691156859
SKU
V9780691156859
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About Victor J. Katz
Victor J. Katz is professor of mathematics emeritus at the University of the District of Columbia. Menso Folkerts is professor emeritus of the history of science at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Barnabas Hughes is professor emeritus of secondary education at California State University, Northridge. Roi Wagner is a research fellow at the Minerva Humanities Center at Tel Aviv ... Read more
Reviews for Sourcebook in the Mathematics of Medieval Europe and North Africa
An equal to its companion volume, The Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and Islam: A Sourcebook this scholarly effort fills a noticeable void... Any individual who enjoys mathematics will learn a great amount about mathematical history in a context that is often not discussed or covered.
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