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Ibn al-Haytham and Analytical Mathematics - A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics Volume 2 (Paperback)
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Ibn al-Haytham and Analytical Mathematics - A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics Volume 2 (Paperback)
Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
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This volume provides a unique primary source on the history and
philosophy of mathematics and the exact sciences in the mediaeval
Arab world. The second of five comprehensive volumes, this book
offers a detailed exploration of Arabic mathematics in the eleventh
century as embodied in the legacy of the celebrated polymath
al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham. Extensive analyses and annotations from
the eminent scholar, Roshdi Rashed, support a number of key Arabic
texts from Ibn al-Haytham's treatises in infinitesimal mathematics,
translated here into English for the first time. Rashed shows how
Ibn al-Haytham's works demonstrate a remarkable mathematical
competence in mathematical subjects like the quadrature of the
circle and of lunes, the calculation of the volumes of paraboloids,
the problem of isoperimetric plane figures and solid figures with
equal surface areas, along with the extraction of square and cubic
roots. The present text is complemented by the first volume of A
History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics, which focused on
founding figures and commentators in the ninth and tenth centuries
Archimedean-Apollonian mathematical 'School of Baghdad'. This
constellation of works illustrates the historical and
epistemological development of 'infinitesimal mathematics' as it
became clearly articulated in the oeuvre of Ibn al-Haytham.
Contributing to a more informed and balanced understanding of the
internal currents of the history of mathematics and the exact
sciences in Islam, and of its adaptive interpretation and
assimilation in the European context, this fundamental text will
appeal to historians of ideas, epistemologists and mathematicians
at the most advanced levels of research.
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