Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword and Acknowledgement -- Preface -- About the Editors -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Section I: History Guiding the Future, the Ibn al-Haytham Legacy -- Chapter 1: Ibn al-Haytham's Scient…
Jusqu'à une date récente, on ne connaissait que six des treize livres que comprenaient les Arithmétiques de Diophante. Quatre livres supplémentaires ont été récemment découverts en traduction arabe. Nous sommes donc maintenant en mesure de comprendre l'organisation de l'ouvrage …
Biographical note: R. Rashed undC. Houzel, CNRS, Paris. Until recently, only six of thirteen books comprising Diophantus' Arithmetica were known to us. Four other books in an Arabic translation have been discovered recently. We can now understand the organization of this work a…
This book follows the development of classical mathematics and the relation between work done in the Arab and Islamic worlds and that undertaken by the likes of Descartes and Fermat.'Early modern, ' mathematics is a term widely used to refer to the mathematics which developed in…