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.
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Language English ● Format PDF ● ISBN 9781461246084 ● Publisher Springer New York ● Published 2014 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 4729329 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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