Ibn al-Haytham’s Completion of the Conics
Author: J.P. Hogendijk
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-11-27
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 147574059X
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Author: J.P. Hogendijk
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-11-27
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 147574059X
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Author: Roshdi Rashed
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-06-26
Total Pages: 770
ISBN-13: 1135072531
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTheory of Conics, Geometrical Constructions and Practical Geometry: A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics Volume 3, provides a unique primary source on the history and philosophy of mathematics and science from the mediaeval Arab world. The present text is complemented by two preceding volumes of A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics, which focused on founding figures and commentators in the ninth and tenth centuries, and the historical and epistemological development of ‘infinitesimal mathematics’ as it became clearly articulated in the oeuvre of Ibn al-Haytham. This volume examines the increasing tendency, after the ninth century, to explain mathematical problems inherited from Greek times using the theory of conics. Roshdi Rashed argues that Ibn al-Haytham completes the transformation of this ‘area of activity,’ into a part of geometry concerned with geometrical constructions, dealing not only with the metrical properties of conic sections but with ways of drawing them and properties of their position and shape. Including extensive commentary from one of world’s foremost authorities on the subject, this book contributes 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.
Author: Alhazen
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 458
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nathan Sidoli
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-10-30
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13: 3642367364
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book honors the career of historian of mathematics J.L. Berggren, his scholarship, and service to the broader community. The first part, of value to scholars, graduate students, and interested readers, is a survey of scholarship in the mathematical sciences in ancient Greece and medieval Islam. It consists of six articles (three by Berggren himself) covering research from the middle of the 20th century to the present. The remainder of the book contains studies by eminent scholars of the ancient and medieval mathematical sciences. They serve both as examples of the breadth of current approaches and topics, and as tributes to Berggren's interests by his friends and colleagues.
Author: J. P. Hogendijk
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780262194822
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecent historical research and new perspectives on the Islamic scientific tradition.
Author: Rushdī Rāshid
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780415582193
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume provides a unique primary source on the history and philosophy of mathematics and science from the mediaeval Arab world. It also includes extensive commentary from one of world's foremost authorities.
Author: Frank N. Magill
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-12-16
Total Pages: 1354
ISBN-13: 1135457395
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContaining 250 entries, each volume of the Dictionary of World Biography contains examines the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. Much more than a 'Who's Who', each entry provides an in-depth essay on the life and career of the individual concerned. Essays commence with a quick reference section that provides basic facts on the individual's life and achievements, and conclude with a fully annotated bibliography. The extended biography places the life and works of the individual within an historical context, and the summary at the end of each essay provides a synopsis of the individual's place in history. Any student in the field will want to have one of these as a handy reference companion.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-08-28
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9004315209
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collective study focuses on a unique anonymous medieval document on ornamental geometry featuring geometrical constructions and textual instructions in Persian. Selections from the unpublished work of Alpay Özdural (d. 2003) on this subject have been updated with original contributions by Jan P. Hogendijk, Elaheh Kheirandish, Gülru Necipoğlu, and Wheeler M. Thackston. The chapters interpreting this fascinating document are followed, for the first time, by a facsimile, transcription, and translation, as well as drawings of incised construction lines invisible in the photographed facsimile. This publication intersects with the current interest in Islamic geometrical patterning as an inspiration for tessellation and parametrically derived forms in contemporary architecture and the arts. It aims to make this celebrated source more accessible, given its multifaceted relevance to historians of art, architecture, and science, as well as mathematicians, physicists, artists, and architects. For those who wish to obtain a copy of the full, unedited original book manuscript of Alpay Özdural, where he discusses the mathematical properties of all geometrical constructions in the Anonymous Compendium as well as the step-by-step method for drawing each one, his work is available online at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5255416
Author: Ragep
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-09-20
Total Pages: 625
ISBN-13: 9004625747
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this volume of conference papers originally presented at the University of Oklahoma, a distinguished group of scholars examines episodes in the transmission of premodern science and provides new insights into its cultural, philosophical and historical significance.
Author: Frank Northen Magill
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2003-01-23
Total Pages: 1354
ISBN-13: 1579580408
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContaining 250 entries, each volume of theDictionary of World Biographycontains examines the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. Much more than a 'Who's Who', each entry provides an in-depth essay on the life and career of the individual concerned. Essays commence with a quick reference section that provides basic facts on the individual's life and achievements, and conclude with a fully annotated bibliography. The extended biography places the life and works of the individual within an historical context, and the summary at the end of each essay provides a synopsis of the individual's place in history. Any student in the field will want to have one of these as a handy reference companion.