Ibn al-Haytham and Analytical Mathematics: A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics Volume 2 - Paperback

by Roshdi Rashed (Author)

This volume provides a unique primary source on the history and philosophy of mathematics and the exact sciences from the mediaeval Arab world. It also includes extensive commentary from one of the world's foremost authorities in the field of Arabic sciences and philosophy, the eminent scholar Roshdi Rashed, who illuminates the various historical, textual and epistemic threads that underpinned the history of Arabic mathematical and scientific knowledge up to the seventeenth century.

Author Biography

Roshdi Rashed is one of the most eminent authorities on Arabic mathematics and the exact sciences. A historian and philosopher of mathematics and science and a highly celebrated epistemologist, he is currently Emeritus Research Director (distinguished class) at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, and is the former Director of the Centre for History of Arabic and Medieval Science and Philosophy at the University of Paris (Denis Diderot, Paris VII). He also holds an Honorary Professorship at the University of Tokyo and an Emeritus Professorship at the University of Mansourah in Egypt.