[Axiom of a prime number declension].
[אקסיומה של ירידה במספר ראשוני].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Barukh ben Yaʻaḳov, mi-ḳ.ḳ. Shḳloṿ

Contributor:

Karp, Abraham J., former owner.

Abraham J. and Deborah Karp Collection of Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Aramaic

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Haskalah.

History.

Jews.

Mathematics--Study and teaching.

Belarus--Shkloŭ.

Lithuania.

Mathematics--Study and teaching--18th century.

Mathematics.

Mathematics--Study and teaching--19th century.

Mathematics--Problems, exercises, etc.

Jews--Belarus--Shkloŭ--History--Sources.

Jews--Lithuania--History--Sources.

Haskalah--Belarus--Shkloŭ--History--Sources.

Genre:

Sources.

Problems and exercises.

Riddles (documents)

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly in the collection of Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Karp.

Physical Description:

1 leaf : paper ; 214 x 174 (55 x 135) mm

Other Title:

Ḥeshbon asher yiḳaḥ aḥar ḥeshbon

חשבון אשר יקח אחר חשבון

Place of Publication:

[Shkloŭ?], [between 1784 and 1812]

[שקלאוו?], [בין 1784-1812].

Language Note:

Hebrew; various words in Aramaic.

Biography/History:

Lithuanian rabbi, scientist, physicist, and mathematician (1744-1812); student of Vilna Gaon (Elijah b. Solomon) and Avraham Katzenellenbogen in Brest-Litovsk; traveling scholar, reader of manuscripts and early maskil, translated Euclid to Hebrew (Hague, 1779) and authored works on geometry, anatomy, and hygiene; served rabbinical positions in Minsk, Slutsk, and Shkloŭ (Shklov).

Summary:

This is a manuscript note written by Barukh Schick of Shkloŭ for his memorizing a mathematical principle which he had written in his books; this is indicated in the first two lines ("זכרון דברים דעלמא לדעת חכמה ובינה חשבון אשר יקח אחר חשבון כדמוכח מספרי ב'") and after indicating that it is described in his book, signs "B'". The purpose of the note was likely for teaching or speaking while traveling, and the writing is in shorthand and difficult to source in Schick's writings (one place in his books where prime number axioms are discussed is the first principle in his Ḳeneh ha-midah (ed. Shkloŭ, printed by Arye-Leib b. Sheraga-Feivush, 1793, p. 1a), there on prime and composite numbers, and this manuscript contains an example of declensions of three). The style of the manuscript is that a riddle is posed, and then answered conceptually (likely as a pedagogic tool). Schick was often traveling and teaching, and may have written this as a reminder of a lesson.

Notes:

Ms. leaf.

Title supplied by cataloger; alternate title Ḥeshbon asher yiḳaḥ aḥar ḥeshbon from second line.

Layout: Written in 10 long lines below a caption.

Script: Written in a Lithuanian-Ashkenazic cursive script.

Origin: Written in Lithuania or Belarus, perhaps Shkloŭ (Shklov in Yiddish), between 1784 (the date of the printing of Ḳeneh ha-midah) and 1812.

Item gray-blue paper, possibly from a ream wrapper.

Cited as:

UPenn Karp BII.13.

OCLC:

1274143160

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