Sourcebook in the Mathematics of Medieval Europe and North Africa - Hardcover

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Victor J. Katz is professor of mathematics emeritus at the University of the District of Columbia. Menso Folkerts is professor emeritus of the history of science at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Barnabas Hughes is professor emeritus of secondary education at California State University, Northridge. Roi Wagner is a research fellow at the Minerva Humanities Center at Tel Aviv University. J. Lennart Berggren is professor emeritus of the history of mathematics at Simon Fraser University in Canada.

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"There is no denying that great mathematical progress was made in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The primary sources in this book show how mathematics developed in medieval Europe to the stage where such progress became possible. The editors do a good job of explaining mathematical ideas of the time to modern readers while still leaving the extracts to speak for themselves."--John Hannah, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

"This sourcebook collects in one place and brings to light in English many valuable and interesting sources on mathematics from the Middle Ages in Europe and North Africa. A significant contribution to the field, it allows scholars and students to consult primary sources that have been translated into English and thoughtfully footnoted."--Sloan Despeaux, Western Carolina University

"This carefully crafted anthology consists primarily of excerpts from diverse historical sources in premodern mathematics. It will be a revelation to readers and abundantly testifies not only to the richness and depth of medieval Western mathematical sciences, but also to the complex interconnections of the different textual traditions that maintained them."--Kim Plofker, author of Mathematics in India

"This book provides the reader with English translations of key mathematical texts from medieval Western Europe and North Africa, all originally written in one of the three scientific languages of that time: Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic. Until now, there has been no sourcebook that deals with Hebrew mathematics as such, or the mathematics of the Muslim West. This volume fills that gap and brings the field an important step forward."--Pascal Crozet, Université Paris Diderot