Katz, Victor J. (Editor)
Folkerts, Menso (Editor)
Hughes, Barnabas (Editor)
Wagner, Roy (Editor)
Berggren, John Lennart (Editor)
Princeton University Press
Physical Details: 593 pp.
Language: English
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 Gershon’s use of mathematical induction in combinatorial proofs; Al-Mu’taman Ibn Hūd’s extensive survey of mathematics, which included proofs of Heron’s Theorem and Ceva’s Theorem; and Muhyī al-Dīn al-Maghribī’s interesting proof of Euclid’s parallel postulate. The book includes a general introduction, section introductions, footnotes, and references.The Sourcebook in the Mathematics of Medieval Europe and North Africa will be indispensable to anyone seeking out the important historical sources of premodern mathematics.
...MoreReview Erwin Neuenschwander (2018) Review of "Sourcebook in the Mathematics of Medieval Europe and North Africa". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 171-173).
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