Diagrams in the Arabic Euclidean tradition: a preliminary assessment
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instance of: scholarly article
title: Diagrams in the Arabic Euclidean tradition: a preliminary assessment
zbMATH Open document ID: 1081.01012
author: Gregg De Young
published in: Historia Mathematica
publication date: 2005-06-30T00:00:00Z
review text: There are two main sources for the study of Euclid in Arabic, the translations of al Ḥajjāj and of Iṣḥaq ibn Ḥunayn and Thābit ibn Qurra, respectively. Neither of these translations has come to us in its original form, but the Iṣḥaq/Thābit tradition is the dominant one. The author has discovered a Princeton ms. of al-Ṭūsī's redaction of the Elements (based on the Iṣḥaq/Thābit tradition) which contains diagrams explicitly ascribed to al Ḥajjāj. It is therefore possible to begin a study of the characteristics which distinguish the diagrams of the two traditions.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A30
zbMATH DE Number: 2184191
zbMATH Keywords: Geometry
zbMATH Keywords: diagrams
zbMATH Keywords: Euclid
zbMATH Keywords: elements
zbMATH Keywords: al-Ḥajjāj
reviewed by: Heinrich Guggenheimer
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: j.hm.2004.04.003
OpenAlex ID: W2057955867
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DOI: 10.1016/J.HM.2004.04.003
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2184191