Sourcebook in the Mathematics of Medieval Europe and North Africa / / ed. by Menso Folkerts, Barnabas Hughes, Roi Wagner, J. Lennart Berggren, Victor J. Katz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Berggren, J. Lennart,; Folkerts, Menso,; Hughes, Barnabas,; Wagner, Roi,
• HerausgeberIn: Berggren, J. Lennart,; Folkerts, Menso,; Hughes, Barnabas,; Katz, Victor J.,; Wagner, Roi,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (592 p.) :; 250 line illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Permissions --; General Introduction --; Chapter 1. The Latin Mathematics of Medieval Europe --; Chapter 2. Mathematics in Hebrew in Medieval Europe --; Chapter 3. Mathematics in the Islamic World in Medieval Spain and North Africa --; Appendices --; Editors and Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400883202; 9783110638592
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400883202?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Menso Folkerts, Barnabas Hughes, Roi Wagner, J. Lennart Berggren, Victor J. Katz.

Medieval Europe was a meeting place for the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic civilizations, and the fertile intellectual exchange of these cultures can be seen in the mathematical developments of the time. This sourcebook presents original Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic sources of medieval mathematics, and shows their cross-cultural influences. Most of the Hebrew and Arabic sources appear here in translation for the first time.Readers will discover key mathematical revelations, foundational texts, and sophisticated writings by Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic-speaking mathematicians, including Abner of Burgos's elegant arguments proving results on the conchoid-a curve previously unknown in medieval Europe; Levi ben Gershon's use of mathematical induction in combinatorial proofs; Al-Mu'taman Ibn Hūd's extensive survey of mathematics, which included proofs of Heron's Theorem and Ceva's Theorem; and Muhyī al-Dīn al-Maghribī's interesting proof of Euclid's parallel postulate. The book includes a general introduction, section introductions, footnotes, and references.The Sourcebook in the Mathematics of Medieval Europe and North Africa will be indispensable to anyone seeking out the important historical sources of premodern mathematics.