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The Epistle of the Number by Ibn al-A?dab - The transmission of Arabic mathematics to Hebrew circles in medieval Sicily
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The Epistle of the Number by Ibn al-A?dab - The transmission of Arabic mathematics to Hebrew circles in medieval Sicily
The first edition of The Epistle of the Number, composed in Syracuse, Sicily, at the end of the 14th century. It is the first known Hebrew treatise to include extensive algebraic theories and procedures, exposing novel mathematical vocabulary, and enhancing our understanding of the linguistic mechanisms which helped create scientific vocabulary in medieval Hebrew.
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