Skip to navigation – Site map

HomeAbstracta IranicaVolume 3010. Histoire des Sciences et des ...Haitham M. Alkhateeb, Jeffrey A. ...

10. Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques
244

Haitham M. Alkhateeb, Jeffrey A. Oaks. « Simplifying equations in Arabic algebra ». Historia Mathematica, 34, 2007, p. 45-61.

Sonja Brentjes

Full text

1The two authors present their results from studying the use of four Arabic terms
(al-jabr, al-muqabala, al-ikmal, al-radd) in a number of Arabic treatises on algebra. They contest the idea of several historians of the mathematical sciences since the eighteenth century that these term were technical terms within the field of their application. They argue that they were rather used almost concomitantly to designate different steps in a procedure without having specific technical signification. This observation they claim enables us to understand the apparent contradictions and instabilities in the terminology of the studied authors.

Top of page

References

Electronic reference

Sonja Brentjes, “Haitham M. Alkhateeb, Jeffrey A. Oaks. « Simplifying equations in Arabic algebra ». Historia Mathematica, 34, 2007, p. 45-61.Abstracta Iranica [Online], Volume 30 | 2010, document 244, Online since 08 April 2010, connection on 18 April 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/abstractairanica/37983; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/abstractairanica.37983

Top of page

About the author

Sonja Brentjes

Universidad de Sevilla - Espagne

By this author

Top of page

Copyright

The text and other elements (illustrations, imported files) are “All rights reserved”, unless otherwise stated.

Top of page
Search OpenEdition Search

You will be redirected to OpenEdition Search