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  • Ibn al-Haytham and Analytical Mathematics

    A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics Volume 2

    by Roshdi Rashed ...
    Series series Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
    This volume provides a unique primary source on the history and philosophy of mathematics and the exact sciences in the mediaeval Arab world. The second of five comprehensive volumes, this book offers a detailed exploration of Arabic mathematics in the eleventh century as embodied in the legacy of the celebrated polymath al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham.Extensive analyses and annotations from the eminent ... Read more

    $105.99 CAD

  • Ibn al-Haytham's Theory of Conics, Geometrical Constructions and Practical Geometry

    A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics Volume 3

    by Roshdi Rashed ...
    Series series Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
    Theory 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 ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science

    Volume 3 Technology, Alchemy and Life Sciences

    by Roshdi Rashed ...
    The Arabic contribution is fundamental to the history of science, mathematics and technology, but until now no single publication has offered an up-to-date synthesis of knowledge in this area. In three fully-illustrated volumes the Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science documents the history and philosophy of Arabic science from the earliest times to the present day. The set as a whole ... Read more

    $1,181.81 CAD

  • Ibn al-Haytham, New Astronomy and Spherical Geometry

    A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics Volume 4

    by Roshdi Rashed ...
    Series series Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
    This volume provides a unique primary source on the history and philosophy of mathematics and science from the mediaeval Arab world. The fourth volume of A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics is complemented by three preceding volumes which focused on infinitesimal determinations and other chapters of classical mathematics.This book includes five main works of the polymath Ibn al-Haytham ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • Founding Figures and Commentators in Arabic Mathematics

    A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics Volume 1

    by Roshdi Rashed ...
    Series series Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
    In this unique insight into the history and philosophy of mathematics and science in the mediaeval Arab world, the 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 seventeenth century. The first of five wide-ranging and comprehensive volumes, this book provides a ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD

  • Classical Mathematics from Al-Khwarizmi to Descartes

    by Roshdi Rashed ...
    Series series Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
    This book follows the development of classical mathematics and the relation between work done in the Arab and Islamic worlds and that undertaken by the likes of Descartes and Fermat.‘Early modern,’ mathematics is a term widely used to refer to the mathematics which developed in the West during the sixteenth and seventeenth century. For many historians and philosophers this is the watershed which ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • Light-Based Science

    Technology and Sustainable Development, The Legacy of Ibn al-Haytham

    Edited by Azzedine Boudrioua, Roshdi Rashed, Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan ...
    This book discusses light-based science, emphasizing its pervasive influence in science, technology, policy, and education. A wide range of contributors offers a comprehensive study of the tremendous, and indeed foundational, contributions of Ibn al Haytham, a scholar from the medieval period. The analysis then moves into the future development of light-based technology. Written as a multi ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • Ibn al-Haytham's Geometrical Methods and the Philosophy of Mathematics

    A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics Volume 5

    Edited by Roshdi Rashed ...
    Series series Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
    This fifth volume of A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics is complemented by four preceding volumes which focused on the main chapters of classical mathematics: infinitesimal geometry, theory of conics and its applications, spherical geometry, mathematical astronomy, etc.This book includes seven main works of Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) and of two of his predecessors, Thābit ibn Qurra and al ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

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    From creating the pyramids to exploring infinity

    by Anne Rooney ...
    Series series The Story of
    'In order to understand the universe you must know the language in which it is written. And that language is mathematics.'- Galileo (1564-1642)For hundreds of thousands of years, we have sought order in the apparent chaos of the universe. Mathematics has been our most valuable tool in that search, uncovering the patterns and rules that govern our world and beyond. How the World Works: Mathematics ... Read more

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  • A History of Mathematics

    by Carl B. Boyer, Uta C. Merzbach ...
    The updated new edition of the classic and comprehensive guide to the history of mathematicsFor more than forty years, A History of Mathematics has been the reference of choice for those looking to learn about the fascinating history of humankind’s relationship with numbers, shapes, and patterns. This revised edition features up-to-date coverage of topics such as Fermat’s Last Theorem and the ... Read more

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  • An Imaginary Tale

    The Story of √-1

    by Paul J. Nahin ...
    Series Book 1 - Princeton Science Library
    Today complex numbers have such widespread practical use--from electrical engineering to aeronautics--that few people would expect the story behind their derivation to be filled with adventure and enigma. In An Imaginary Tale, Paul Nahin tells the 2000-year-old history of one of mathematics' most elusive numbers, the square root of minus one, also known as i. He recreates the baffling mathematical ... Read more

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  • Mathematical Thought From Ancient to Modern Times, Volume 1

    by Morris Kline ...
    This comprehensive history traces the development of mathematical ideas and the careers of the men responsible for them. Volume 1 looks at the disciplines origins in Babylon and Egypt, the creation of geometry and trigonometry by the Greeks, and the role of mathematics in the medieval and early modern periods. Volume 2 focuses on calculus, the rise of analysis in the 19th century, and the number ... Read more

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