This book presents episodes from the mathematics of medieval Islam, work which has had a great impact on the development of mathematics. The author describes the subject in its proper historical context, referring to specific Arabic texts. Among the topics discussed are decimal arithmetic, plane and spherical trigonometry, algebra, interpolation and approximation of roots of equations. This book should be of great interest to historians of mathematics, as well as to students of mathematics. The presentation is readily accessible to anyone with a background in high school mathematics.
- ISBN10 0387963189
- ISBN13 9780387963181
- Publish Date 10 December 1986
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 12 December 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 197
- Language English