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The Arithmetic of Al-Uqlidisi - The Story of Hindu-Arabic Arithmetic as told in Kitab al-Fusul fi al-Hisab al-Hindi (Hardcover, 1978 ed.)
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The Arithmetic of Al-Uqlidisi - The Story of Hindu-Arabic Arithmetic as told in Kitab al-Fusul fi al-Hisab al-Hindi (Hardcover, 1978 ed.)
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The purpose of presenting this book to the scholarly world is
twofold. In the first place, I wish to provide for the English
reader a translation of the earliest extant Arabic work of Hindi
arithmetic. It shows this system at its earliest stages and the
first steps in its development, a subject not yet well known except
for readers of some Arabic publications by the present writer. This
book is therefore of particular importance for students of the
history of mathematical techniques. The medieval author,
AI-UqHdisI, was, it seems, not noticed by bibliographers; neither
was his work, which lay hardly noticed by modern scholars until
1960 when I happened to see a microfilm copy of it in the Institute
of Arabic Manu scripts in Cairo. A steady labour immediately
followed to make a comparative study of the text together with over
twenty other texts, some of them not yet known to scholars. This
pursuit resulted in (i) a doctoral degree awarded to me in 1966 by
the University of Khartoum, (ii) the publication of several texts
in Arabic including the text here translated, and (iii) the
publication of several articles in Arabic and English on the
history of arithmetic in the Middle Ages. The second purpose of
this book is to make the main results of my study available to the
English reader."
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