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Mathematical commentaries in Arabic and Persian – purposes, forms, and styles. (English) Zbl 1421.01003

Author’s abstract: Mathematical commentaries in Arabic and Persian have come down to us in abundant numbers and manifoldness. There is no study of them as a literary genre, their distribution over time, space, or topic, nor of their forms or styles. The commentaries that have been scrutinized so far are few in number and focusing in topic mostly on geometry and in scope on those with innovative contributions. In this paper, I will try to survey more generally purposes, forms, and styles of mathematical commentaries based on a larger number of texts with different thematic content and range and produced in different contexts, periods, and localities.

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01A30 History of mathematics in the Golden Age of Islam
01A90 Bibliographic studies
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