Jan P. Hogendijk. « Anthyphairetic Ratio Theory in Medieval Islamic Mathematics », in : Yvonne Dold-Samplonius, Joseph W. Dauben, Menso Folkerts & Benno van Dalen, éds., From China to Paris. 2000 Years Transmission of Mathematical Ideas. Series: Boethius 46, Stuttgart (Steiner), 2002, pp. 187-202.
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1One of the most difficult parts of Euclid’s “Elements” concerns the theory of ratios and proportions of general magnitudes in Book V. The author discusses in detail the treatises by three early Muslim scholars on an alternative definition of ratios, namely anthyphairetic ratio theory. The earliest and most important of these is by the highly capable 9th-century Iranian mathematician and astronomer al-Māhānī. The other two treatises, by al-Nayrīzī (ca. 880) in his commentary on the “Elements” and by ⁽Umar al-Ḫayyām (1048-1131) are less advanced and make clear that there was no tradition in Islamic mathematics of studying anthyphairetic ratios. The article is very technical and includes all definitions of anthyphairetic ratios given in the three treatises.
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« Jan P. Hogendijk. « Anthyphairetic Ratio Theory in Medieval Islamic Mathematics », in : Yvonne Dold-Samplonius, Joseph W. Dauben, Menso Folkerts & Benno van Dalen, éds., From China to Paris. 2000 Years Transmission of Mathematical Ideas. Series: Boethius 46, Stuttgart (Steiner), 2002, pp. 187-202. », Abstracta Iranica [En ligne], Volume 25 | 2004, document 271, mis en ligne le 15 mars 2006, consulté le 17 juillet 2025. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/abstractairanica/4993 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/abstractairanica.4993
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