Late Antiquity and Islamicate Mathematics

Leo Corry

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-79679-2_3

Late Antiquity and Islamicate Mathematics

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This chapter discusses some important instances of distributivity-like ideas appearing in the Islamicate tradition. It starts by examining al-Nayrīzī’s additions to the Elements that appear in the framework of his report on Heron’s Commentary. It also discuss briefly Abū Kāmil’s version of propositions from Book II, as well as an interesting appearance of distributivity-like considerations surfacing in the work of al-Khayyām.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology
Publisher	Springer Nature
Pages	27-42
Number of pages	16
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79679-2_3
State	Published - 2021
Externally published	Yes

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Name	SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology
ISSN (Print)	2211-4564
ISSN (Electronic)	2211-4572

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Keywords

Abū Kāmil
Arabic algebra
Distributive-like rules
Heron
Islamicate mathematics
The euclidean tradition
al-Khayyām
al-Nayrīzī

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