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Mathematics in Hebrew in Medieval Europe
2016This chapter covers mathematics written in Hebrew between the eleventh and sixteenth centuries in Europe. It starts with the practical and scholarly—as well as earlier and later—Hebrew expositions of arithmetic, from Ibn Ezra's foundational twelfth-century The Book of Number, to Levi ben Gershon's early-fourteenth-century arithmetic.
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Mathematics in Medieval Islamic Spain
1995From the seventh to the eleventh century, a large part of present-day Spain and Portugal belonged to the Islamic world. I will use the term “Islamic Spain” to indicate the part of the Iberian peninsula that was under Muslim rule. The term Islamic Spain is not strictly correct, because Spain did not exist in the early Middle Ages, but the important ...
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Mathematics and Her Sisters in Medieval Islam: A Selective Review of Work Done from 1985 to 1995 [PDF]
Historia Mathematica, 1997 This paper surveys work done over the past decade, largely in Western Europe and North America, in the history of the mathematical sciences as practiced in medieval Islam from central Asia to Spain.
Berggren, J.Lennart
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Mathematics in Ancient and Medieval India
2005Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677), that gentle philosopher of the seventeenth century laid down as his credo “Sedulo curavi, humanas actiones non redere, non lugere, neque detestari, sed intelligere”. He says that when he sets out to interpret the thoughts and history of a bygone age, he obeys the above injunctions set by him for himself — not to ridicule ...
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South Indian Achievements in Medieval Mathematics
2019The development of Hindu mathematics did not come to a standstill after the famous Bhāskarācārya or Bhāskara II (circa 1150 ad) although many scholars believed and still believe that.
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Episodes in the Mathematics of Medieval Islam.
The American Mathematical Monthly, 1988Gerald J. Toomer, J. L. Berggren
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A Cultural History of Mathematics In The Medieval Age
A Cultural History of Mathematics in the Medieval Age covers the period from 500 to 1450, focusing in particular on the innovations in East and South Asia and in Islamicate cultures. With the invention of algebra and the decimal place-value number system – as well as innovations in trigonometry, astronomy, and finance – medieval mathematics ...openaire +1 more source