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Ibn al-Haytham's Geometrical Methods and the Philosophy of Mathematics - A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics Volume 5 (Paperback)
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Ibn al-Haytham's Geometrical Methods and the Philosophy of Mathematics - A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics Volume 5 (Paperback)
Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
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This fifth volume of A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics
is complemented by four preceding volumes which focused on the main
chapters of classical mathematics: infinitesimal geometry, theory
of conics and its applications, spherical geometry, mathematical
astronomy, etc. This book includes seven main works of Ibn
al-Haytham (Alhazen) and of two of his predecessors, Thabit ibn
Qurra and al-Sijzi: The circle, its transformations and its
properties; Analysis and synthesis: the founding of analytical art;
A new mathematical discipline: the Knowns; The geometrisation of
place; Analysis and synthesis: examples of the geometry of
triangles; Axiomatic method and invention: Thabit ibn Qurra; The
idea of an Ars Inveniendi: al-Sijzi. Including extensive commentary
from one of the world's foremost authorities on the subject, this
fundamental text is essential reading for historians and
mathematicians at the most advanced levels of research.
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