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Episodes in the Mathematics of Medieval Islam

By J.L. Berggren

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2013
ISBN
0387406050, 9780387406053
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10381629 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
197\210
Time added
2016-11-06 05:11:40
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Description

This book presents episodes from the mathematics of medieval Islam, work which has had a great impact on the development of mathematics. The author describes the subject in its proper historical context, referring to specific Arabic texts. Among the topics discussed are decimal arithmetic, plane and spherical trigonometry, algebra, interpolation and approximation of roots of equations. This book should be of great interest to historians of mathematics, as well as to students of mathematics. The presentation is readily accessible to anyone with a background in high school mathematics.

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