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Impacts of a Unique Course on the History of Mathematics in the Islamic World - References

Author(s): 
Nuh Aydin (Kenyon College)

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[13a] V. Katz (editor), Sourcebook in the Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and Islam, Princeton University Press, 2007. See especially J. Lennart Berggren, “Chapter 5. Mathematics in Medieval Islam,” pp. 515-675.

[13b] V. Katz (editor), Sourcebook in the Mathematics of Medieval Europe and North Africa, Princeton University Press, 2016. See especially J. Lennart Berggren, “Chapter 3. Mathematics in the Islamic World in Medieval Spain and North Africa,” pp. 381-547.

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Nuh Aydin (Kenyon College), "Impacts of a Unique Course on the History of Mathematics in the Islamic World - References," Convergence (July 2017)