The Epistle of the Number by Ibn al-Aḥdab : The transmission of Arabic mathematics to Hebrew circles in medieval Sicily / Ilana Wartenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wartenberg, Ilana, author.

Series:

Perspectives on society and culture ; 2.

Perspectives on Society and Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Al-Aḥdab, Iṣḥak ben Shlomo, 1396-1429.

Al-Aḥdab, Iṣḥak ben Shlomo.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 470 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2015]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The first edition of The Epistle of the Number, composed in Syracuse, Sicily, at the end of the 14th century. It is the first known Hebrew treatise to include extensive algebraic theories and procedures, exposing novel mathematical vocabulary, and enhancing our understanding of the linguistic mechanisms which helped create scientific vocabulary in medieval Hebrew.

Contents:

Frontmatter

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

FOREWORD

HEBREW ABBREVIATIONS

HEBREW AND ARABIC TRANSLITERATION

CHAPTER 1: IBN AL-AHDAB

CHAPTER 2: THE HEBREW AND ARABIC EPISTLES

CHAPTER 3: A MATHEMATICAL COMMENTARY OF THE EPISTLE OF THE NUMBER

CHAPTER 4: THE UNICUM

CHAPTER 5: AN EDITION OF THE EPISTLE OF THE NUMBER

CHAPTER 6: AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE EPISTLE OF THE NUMBER

CHAPTER 7: A LEXICON OF THE MATHEMATICAL TERMS IN BOOK II

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Apr 2019)

ISBN:

9781463236540

1463236549

OCLC:

1100433943