On Arithmetic & Geometry by Nader El-Bizri
This is the first critical edition of the first and second Epistles of the Brethren Purity--the Rasa 'il--in Arabic with a fully annotated English translation. It presents technical and epistemic analyses of mathematical concepts and their metaphysical bases, and an overview of the mathematical sciences within Islamic intellectual milieu.
[T]his volume is a major contribution to Islamic intellectual history--scholarly, supported, and judiciousThe translation on the whole is fluent ... and the edition and its principles are clear. * Sajjad H. Rizvi, The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences *
...reading through the commentary (or, even better, the text itself) gives a nice quick snapshot of how the medieval Islamic scholar began his study of the mathematical sciences. * MAA Reviews *
...reading through the commentary (or, even better, the text itself) gives a nice quick snapshot of how the medieval Islamic scholar began his study of the mathematical sciences. * MAA Reviews *
Nader El-Bizri is the General Editor of the Epistles of the Brethren of Purity series. He is a Reader at the University of Lincoln, a Chercheur Associé at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, and a Visiting Research Associate in Philosophy at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. He is co-editor of a book series in Phenomenology (Kluwer Academic Publishers), and the Editor of the 'Islam' division of the Springer Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions. He is the author of The Phenomenological Quest between Avicenna and Heidegger (New York, 2000), and the editor of The Ikhwãn al-Safã?' and their Rasã'il (London-New York: OUP-IIS, 2008), and of Roshdi Rashed's Founding Figures and Commentators in Arabic Mathematics: A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics, Volume 1 (London: Routledge, 2011).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199655601 |
| ISBN 10 | 019965560X |
| Title | On Arithmetic & Geometry |
| Author | Nader El-Bizri |
| Series | Epistles Of The Brethren Of Purity |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2013-08-24 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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