The Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and Islam: A Sourcebook. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2007, 712 p.
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van Dalen Benno, « The Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and Islam: A Sourcebook. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2007, 712 p. », Abstracta Iranica, ID : 10.4000/abstractairanica.39746
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ed. The Islamic section of this sourcebook on pre-modern, non-western mathematics (p. 515-675, authored by J. Lennart Berggren and organized by topic) includes English translations of passages from, among others: the Treatise on Hindu Reckoning and the Compendium on Calculation by Completion and Reduction by Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Ḫwārazmī (ca. 830); the correspondence on the centres of gravity of plane and solid bodies between Abū Sahl al-Kūhī and Abū Isḥāq al-Ṣābī (2nd half of the 10th c.); a...