This book surveys teaching and learning of the mathematical and occult sciences, medicine and natural philosophy in various Islamicate societies between 800 and 1700. It focuses in particular on Egypt and Syria between 1200 and 1600, but looks up also developments in Iran, India…
This book surveys teaching and learning in the mathematical and occult sciences, medicine and natural philosophy in various Islamicate societies between 800 and 1700. It focuses in particular on Egypt and Syria between 1200 and 1600, but looks also at developments in Iran, India…
This book surveys teaching and learning of the mathematical and occult sciences, medicine and natural philosophy in various Islamicate societies between 800 and 1700. It focuses in particular on Egypt and Syria between 1200 and 1600, but looks up also developments in Iran, India…
This book surveys teaching and learning of the mathematical and occult sciences, medicine and natural philosophy in various Islamicate societies between 800 and 1700. It focuses in particular on Egypt and Syria between 1200 and 1600, but looks up also developments in Iran, India…
This book surveys teaching and learning of the mathematical and occult sciences, medicine and natural philosophy in various Islamicate societies between 800 and 1700. It focuses in particular on Egypt and Syria between 1200 and 1600, but looks up also developments in Iran, India…
Euclid (fl. third century B.C.E.?) is best known as the author of mathematical textbooks that were used in Europe, Asia, and North Africa for almost two millennia. There is little reliable information about his life and his scholarly activities. He is usually linked to the Mouse…
The word cartography first appears in the nineteenth century, coined by Manuel Francisco de Barros e Sousa, Viscount of Santarém (1791–1856). In this survey, it will be used as a synonym for the practices of mapmaking and for the results of those practices. The Chicago history o…
Arithmetic has three main disciplinary meanings within the history of mathematics in Islamic societies. One reflects ancient Greek number theory and is represented by the transliterated Greek term arithmāṭīqā . The second is close to the common, modern, school usage of the word,…
Algorithm , as the word is used today, can be summarised as a computable set of steps to achieve a desired result. 1. Genesis of the name The word “algorithm” was formed in several stages from the nisba of Muḥammad b. Mūsā al-Khwārazmī (d. c.232/847), the author of a text on Ind…