ISLAM AND MATHEMATICS

Mathematics in Specific Areas of the Islamic World


  • *131. Djebbar, A. Mathematics in Medieval Maghreb. AMUCHMA Newsletter 15 (1995), pp. 3-42.
    Fundamental paper on medieval mathematics in the Western Islamic world. Available on internet at www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/AMU/amu_chma_15.html.
  • *132. Djebbar, A. Enseignement et recherche mathématiques dans le Maghreb des XIIIe-XIVe siècles. Université de Paris-Sud: Départment de Mathématique, 1980.
  • *133. Kennedy, Edward S. The Exact Sciences in Abbasid Iran, The Exact Sciences in Iran under the Saljuqs and Mongols, and The Exact Sciences in Timurid Iran, all chapters in The Cambridge History of Iran, 8 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968.
  • *133a De Young, G. Euclidean Geometry in the Mathematical Tradition of Islamic India, Historia Mathematica 22 (1995), 138-153.
    On mathematics education in Islamic India, with emphasis on the transmission of Euclid's Elements and Arabic and Persian commentaries.
  • *134. King, D. A. The Astronomy of the Mamluks. Isis 74 (1983), pp. 531-555.
    Surveys the achievements in mathematical astronomy in 13th- to 16th-century Egypt and Syria. Reprinted in *186.
  • *134a. Samso, J. and Vernet, J. The Development of Arabic Science in Andalusia.
    published in: *23 (vol. 1) pp. 243-275.
For mathematics in Islamic Spain see also *4, *15, *182, *194, for the Maghreb see also *20, *108, *135

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