ISBN-13: 9780415582186 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 450 str.
ISBN-13: 9780415582186 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 450 str.
A primary source on the history and philosophy of mathematics and the exact sciences from the medieval Arab world. Eminent scholar Roshdi Rashed illuminates the various historical, textual and epistemic threads that underpinned the history of Arabic mathematical and scientific knowledge up to the 17th century. Contributing to 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.