Chapter ID: CBB000930936

Congruent Numbers in the Tenth and in the Twentieth Century (2007)

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describes all attempts throughout history to solve the problem of congruent numbers. One of these was in an arabic manuscript of the 10th century.

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Book Vrolijk, Arnoud; Hogendijk, Jan P. (2007) O ye Gentlemen: Arabic Studies on Science and Literary Culture. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Rashed, Roshdi
Moussa, Ali
Bellosta, Hélène
Abgrall, Philippe
Taheri, Jafar
Zellini, Paolo
Concepts
Mathematics
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Geometry
Philosophy of mathematics
Numbers
Trigonometry
Time Periods
10th century
Medieval
11th century
9th century
Early modern
17th century
Places
Europe
Persia (Iran)
Mesopotamia
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