Founding Figures and Commentators in Arabic Mathematics

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 in the ninth and tenth centuries.

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Roshdi Rashed is one of the most eminent authorities on Arabic mathematics and the exact sciences. A historian and philosopher of mathematics and science and a highly celebrated epistemologist, he is currently Emeritus Research Director (distinguished class) at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, and is the Director of the Centre for History of Medieval Science and Philosophy at the University of Paris (Denis Diderot, Paris VII). He also holds an Honorary Professorship at the University of Tokyo and an Emeritus Professorship at the University of Mansourah in Egypt.

Nader El-Bizri is a Reader at the University of Lincoln, and a Chercheur Associé at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris (CNRS, UMR 7219). He has lectured on 'Arabic Sciences and Philosophy' at the University of Cambridge since 1999. He held a Visiting Professorship at the University of Lincoln (2007-2010), and, since 2002, he continues to be a senior Research Associate affiliated with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London.

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1. Banu Musa and the Calculation of the Volume of the Sphere and the Cylinder 2. Thabit Ibn Qurra and his Works in Infinitesimal Mathematics 3. Ibn Sinan, Critique of Al-Mahani: The Area of the Parabola 4. Abu Ja'far Al-Khazin. Isoperimetrics and Isepiphanics 5. Al-Quhi, Critique of Thabit: Volume of the Paraboloid of Revolution 6. Ibn Al-Samh: The Plane Sections of a Cylinder and the Determination of their Areas 7. Ibn hud: The Measurement of the Parabola and the Isoperimetric Problem