Roshdi Rashed Boeken

Focusing on the ninth and tenth centuries, this work delves into the rich history and philosophy of mathematics and science in the medieval Arab world. Roshdi Rashed, a distinguished scholar, explores the intricate historical, textual, and epistemic connections that shaped Arabic mathematical and scientific knowledge during this period, providing a unique perspective on its development and significance.

Exploring the evolution of classical mathematics, this book highlights the significant contributions from the Arab and Islamic worlds alongside the advancements made by European mathematicians such as Descartes and Fermat. It delves into the interconnectedness of these cultures and their influence on the development of mathematical thought, showcasing a rich tapestry of ideas and innovations that shaped the discipline.

Offering a rare primary source, this volume delves into the history and philosophy of mathematics and science during the medieval Arab period. It features comprehensive commentary from a leading expert in the field, enhancing the understanding of the era's contributions to these disciplines.

Focusing on the historical and philosophical aspects of mathematics, this volume delves into the contributions of medieval Arab scholars, particularly in the fields of conics and geometry. It serves as a primary source, offering insights into the evolution of mathematical thought during this period. Complementing two earlier volumes, it highlights key figures and the development of 'infinitesimal mathematics' as articulated by Ibn al-Haytham, enriching the understanding of Arabic sciences and their impact on mathematics.

Focusing on the medieval Arab world, this volume serves as a primary source on the history and philosophy of mathematics and the exact sciences. It features extensive commentary by Roshdi Rashed, a leading expert in Arabic sciences and philosophy. His insights illuminate the historical, textual, and epistemic contexts that shaped Arabic mathematical and scientific knowledge through the seventeenth century, offering a rich understanding of its development and significance.

Despite its importance in the history of Ancient science, Menelaus’ Spherics is still by and large unknown. This treatise, which lies at the foundation of spherical geometry, is lost in Greek but has been preserved in its Arabic versions. The reader will find here, for the first time edited and translated into English, the essentials of this tradition, namely: a fragment of an early Arabic translation and the first Arabic redaction of the Spherics composed by al-Māhānī /al-Harawī, together with a historical and mathematical study of Menelaus’ treatise. With this book, a new and important part of the Greek and Arabic legacy to the history of mathematics comes to light. This book will be an indispensable acquisition for any reader interested in the history of Ancient geometry and science and, more generally, in Greek and Arabic science and culture.

Les textes réunis dans ces quatre volumes portent sur l’histoire et la philosophie des mathématiques et de leurs applications. Les trois premiers tomes sont consacrés à l’histoire des mathématiques (arithmétique, algèbre, géométrie), de l’optique et de l’astronomie, de l’Antiquité à l’Âge classique. Les très nombreuses études qu’ils contiennent ont renouvelé, au cours des cinquante dernières années, l’étude des principaux mathématiciens grecs – Euclide, Archimède, Apollonius, Diophante, Ménélaüs – et ont montré quelle a été la nature et la portée de leur réception et de leurs transformations, tant dans l’Islam classique qu’au cours de la première modernité européenne. Le quatrième volume fonde et explore divers champs de recherche entre philosophie et mathématiques, des interactions polymorphes propres à la science grecque, arabe et latine jusqu’à la mathématisation des sciences sociales au XVIII e siècle. Tant par la nouveauté des matériaux découverts et édités pour la première fois que par la puissance et la finesse qui en guident toujours l’analyse épistémologique, les dizaines de contributions ici rassemblées représentent une œuvre majeure, qui a changé l’histoire des sciences de notre temps.

Al-Sijzī was a mathematician of the second half of the tenth century, a particularly fertile period for the history and philosophy of mathematics. He occupies a central place in a generation that, in particular, succeeded in renewing the methods of geometry and opening up new avenues of research in this field. This book contains a critical edition of several of his writings on plane and solid geometry, thus enriching research in the history and philosophy of mathematics. Al-Sijzī endeavours to identify the laws of geometry and, through a commentary on Euclid's books, to explain its principles. In the course of this work to elucidate the laws and concepts of the discipline, he also devoted essays to teaching, and others to the theory of demonstration. In addition, he kept up a rich correspondence with contemporary mathematicians, a living illustration of the mathematical research of his time.

The texts in these four volumes deal with the history and philosophy of mathematics and its applications. The first three volumes are devoted to the history of mathematics (arithmetic, algebra, geometry), optics and astronomy, from Antiquity to the Classical Age. Over the last fifty years, the numerous studies contained in this volume have renewed the study of the main Greek mathematicians - Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius, Diophantus, Menelaus - and have shown the nature and scope of their reception and transformations, both in classical Islam and in early European modernity. The fourth volume establishes and explores various fields of research between philosophy and mathematics, from the polymorphous interactions specific to Greek, Arab and Latin science to the mathematisation of the social sciences in the eighteenth century. Both in terms of the novelty of the material discovered and published for the first time and the power and finesse that continue to guide its epistemological analysis, the dozens of contributions collected here represent a major work that has changed the history of science in our time.

The texts in these four volumes deal with the history and philosophy of mathematics and its applications. The first three volumes are devoted to the history of mathematics (arithmetic, algebra, geometry), optics and astronomy, from Antiquity to the Classical Age. Over the last fifty years, the numerous studies contained in this volume have renewed the study of the main Greek mathematicians - Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius, Diophantus, Menelaus - and have shown the nature and scope of their reception and transformations, both in classical Islam and in early European modernity. The fourth volume establishes and explores various fields of research between philosophy and mathematics, from the polymorphous interactions specific to Greek, Arab and Latin science to the mathematisation of the social sciences in the eighteenth century. Both in terms of the novelty of the material discovered and published for the first time and the power and finesse that continue to guide its epistemological analysis, the dozens of contributions collected here represent a major work that has changed the history of science in our time.