Arithmetic in the Islamic World

J. L. Berggren ()
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J. L. Berggren: Simon Fraser University, Department of Mathematics

Chapter Chapter 2 in Episodes in the Mathematics of Medieval Islam, 2016, pp 31-78 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Muslim mathematicians were the first people to write numbers the way we do, and, although we are the heirs of the Greeks in geometry, the part of our legacy from the Muslim world is our arithmetic.

Keywords: Fractional Part; Decimal Point; Hindu Numeral; Muslim World; High Place (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-3780-6_2

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