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Ibn al-Haytham's Theory of Conics, Geometrical Constructions and Practical Geometry

Ibn al-Haytham's Theory of Conics, Geometrical Constructions and Practical Geometry
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Ibn al-Haytham's Theory of Conics, Geometrical Constructions and Practical Geometry
Theory of Conics, Geometrical Constructions and Practical Geometry: A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics Volume 3, provides a unique primary source on the history and philosophy of mathematics and science from the mediaeval Arab world. The present text is complemented by two preceding volumes of A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics, which focused on founding figures and commentators in the ninth and tenth centuries, and the historical and epistemological development of ‘infinitesimal mathematics’ as it became clearly articulated in the oeuvre of Ibn al-Haytham. _x005F_x000D_ This volume examines the increasing tendency, after the ninth century, to explain mathematical problems inherited from Greek times using the theory of conics. Roshdi Rashed argues that Ibn al-Haytham completes the transformation of this ‘area of activity,’ into a part of geometry concerned with geometrical constructions, dealing not only with the metrical properties of conic sections but with ways of drawing them and properties of their position and shape.

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  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publication Place: UK
  • Publication Year: 2013-02-21
  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: 784
  • Edition: 1
  • Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
  • Seller: BestBookBuddies  
  • Category: RAPS
  • Stock: 9999
  • Model: Stock
  • Weight: 1.29kg
  • SKU: Stock
  • ISBN: 9780415582155
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