From Alexandria, Through Baghdad

Edited by Nathan Sidoli and Glen Van Brummelen ()

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Date: 2014
Edition: 2014
ISBN: 978-3-642-36736-6
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History of Greek Mathematics: A Survey of Recent Research [1984]

J. Lennart Berggren

Mathematical Reconstructions Out, Textual Studies In: 30 Years in the Historiography of Greek Mathematics [1998]

Ken Saito

Research on Ancient Greek Mathematical Sciences, 1998-2012

Nathan Sidoli

History of Mathematics in the Islamic World: The Present State of the Art [1985]

J. Lennart Berggren

Mathematics and Her Sisters in Medieval Islam: A Selective Review of Work Done from 1985 to 1995 [1997]

J. Lennart Berggren

A Survey of Research in the Mathematical Sciences in Medieval Islam from 1996 to 2011

Glen Van Brummelen

Mechanical Astronomy: A Route to the Ancient Discovery of Epicycles and Eccentrics

James Evans and Christián Carlos Cannan

Some Greek Sundial Meridians

Alexander Jones

An Archimedean Proof of Heron’s Fonnula for the Area of a Triangle: Heuristics Reconstructed

Christian Marinus Taisbak

Reading the Lost Folia of the Archimedean Palimpsest: The Last Proposition of the Method

Ken Saito and Pier Daniele Napolitani

Acts of Geometrical Construction in the Spherics of Theodosios

Robert Thomas

Archimedes Among the Ottomans: An Updated Survey

İhsan Fazlıoğlu and F. Jamil Ragep

The “Second” Arabic Translation of Theodosius’ Sphaerica

Richard Lorch

More Archimedean than Archimedes: A New Trace of Abū Sahl al-Kūhī’s Work in Latin

Jan P. Hogendijk

Les mathématiques en Occident musulman (IXe-XVIIIe s.) Panorama des travaux réalisés entre 1999 et 2011

Ahmed Djebbar

Ibn al-Raqqām’s al-Zij al-Mustawfi in MS Rabat National Library 2461

Julio Samsó

An Ottoman Astrolabe Full of Surprises

David A. King

Un algébriste arabe: Abū Kāmil Šuğāc ibn Aslam

Jacques Sesiano

Abū Kāmil’s Book on Mensuration

Jacques Sesiano

Hebrew Texts on the Regular Polyhedra

Tzvi Langermann

A Treatise by al-Bīrūnī on the Rule of Three and its Variations

Takanori Kusuba

Safavid Art, Science, and Courtly Education in the Seventeenth Century

Sonja Brentjes

Translating Playfair’s Geometry into Arabic: Mathematics and Missions

Gregg De Young

The Life of π: From Archimedes to ENIAC and Beyond

Jonathan M. Borwein

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