Contributions to the History of Science: Part I. Robert of Chester's Latin Translation of the Algebra of Al-Khowarizmi
translated by Louis Charles Karpinski
by Louis Karpinski
University of Michigan Press, 1915
Paper: 978-0-472-75151-8 | eISBN: 978-0-472-91053-3 (OA)
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Focusing on a history of science and mathematics, this title is an English translation of a Latin text that describes the mathematical ideas of Al-Khowarizmi, an Arabic mathematician. At the time of its original publication, the author attempted to use newer phrasing to make this text more readable to the contemporary mathematics student.
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