Roshdi Rashed

eBook, ePUB

Classical Mathematics from Al-Khwarizmi to Descartes (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

This book follows the development of classical mathematics and the relation between work done in the Arab and Islamic worlds and that undertaken by the likes of Descartes and Fermat.

Technische Details

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• Größe: 16.83MB

Autor

Roshdi Rashed is one of the most eminent authorities on Arabic mathematics and the exact sciences. A historian and philosopher of mathematics and science and a highly celebrated epistemologist, he is currently Emeritus Research Director (distinguished class) at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, and is the former Director of the Centre for History of Medieval Science and Philosophy at the University of Paris (Denis Diderot, Paris VII). He also holds an Honorary Professorship at the University of Tokyo and an Emeritus Professorship at the University of Mansourah in Egypt.

Michael H. Shank is professor of the History of Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, were he teaches surveys of the history of science from antiquity to Newton. His research interests focus on, and often stray beyond, the late-medieval Viennese astronomical and natural philosophical traditions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 758
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317622383
• Artikelnr.: 41502056