(Article I.14.) A Diluted Al-Karajī In Abbacus Mathematics

Jens Høyrup ()
Additional contact information
Jens Høyrup: Roskilde University, Section for Philosophy and Science Studies

Chapter Chapter 15 in Selected Essays on Pre- and Early Modern Mathematical Practice, 2019, pp 397-407 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In several preceding Maghreb colloques I have argued, from varying perspectives, that the algebra of the Italian abbacus school was inspired neither from Latin algebraic writings (the translations of al-Khwārizmī and the Liber abbaci) nor directly from authors like al-Khwārizmī, Abū Kāmil and al-Karajī; instead, its root in the Arabic world is a level of algebra (probably coupled to mu‘āmalāt mathematics) which until now has not been scrutinized systematically. Going beyond this negative characterization I shall argue on the present occasion that abbacus algebra received indirect inspiration from al-Karajī. As it will turn out, however, this inspiration is consistently strongly diluted, and certainly indirect.

Date: 2019
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-19258-7_15

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783030192587

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-19258-7_15

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Books from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().