Revisiting al-Samaw'al's table of binomial coefficients: Greek inspiration, diagrammatic reasoning and mathematical induction
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title: Revisiting al-Samaw'al's table of binomial coefficients: Greek inspiration, diagrammatic reasoning and mathematical induction
zbMATH Open document ID: 1332.01010
author: Sanaa Bajri
author: John Hannah
author: Clemency Montelle
published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences
publication date: 2015-11-09T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10092/11738
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A30
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A20
zbMATH DE Number: 6505822
zbMATH Keywords: Islamic algebra
zbMATH Keywords: Greek influence
zbMATH Keywords: mathematical induction
zbMATH Keywords: Pascal triangle
zbMATH Keywords: binomial theorem
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OpenAlex ID: W638818748
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DOI: 10.1007/S00407-015-0156-X
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description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6505822