Sourcebook in the Mathematics of Medieval Europe and North Africa

Medieval Europe was a meeting place for the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic civilizations, and the fertile intellectual exchange of these cultures can be seen in the mathematical developments of the time. This sourcebook presents original Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic sources of medieval mathematics, and shows their cross-cultural influences. Most of the Hebrew and Arabic sources appear here in translation for the first time. Readers will discover key mathematical revelations, foundational texts, and sophisticated writings by Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic-speaking mathematicians, including Abner of Burgoss elegant arguments proving results on the conchoid - a curve previously unknown in medieval Europe; Levi ben Gershons use of mathematical induction in combinatorial proofs; Al-Mutaman Ibn Hds extensive survey of mathematics, which included proofs of Herons Theorem and Cevas Theorem; and Muhy al-Dn al-Maghribs interesting proof of Euclids parallel postulate. The book includes a general introduction, section introductions, footnotes, and references.