Bøger af Roshdi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Cnrs) in Paris France) Rashed

This is the first comprehensive treatment of the history of the angle from Euclid to classical Arabic mathematics. The volume presents critically edited texts, with translations and commentaries, of Greek and Arabic philosophers and mathematicians including Euclid, Simplicius, al-Nayr¿z¿, Avicenna, Ibn al-Haytham, al-T¿s¿, al-Sh¿r¿z¿, and al-F¿ris¿.

This is the first study of the history of Diophantine analysis and the theory of numbers from Abu Kamil to Fermat (9th-17th century). It thus offers an elaborate and detailed overview on a fundamental chapter on classical mathematical thought and its relation to algebra and Diophantus' Arithmetica.