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Madison and Milwaukee: University of Wisconsin Press, 1965. A translation with introduction and notes by Martin Levey and Marvin Petruck of the Kitab fi usul hisab al-hind. [xiii] 114p., b/w facsimiles, original blue cloth (The University of Wiisconsin publications in medieval science).

University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fine Condition/Fine. A publication in the University of Wisconsin 'Medieval Science' series; 40 page introduction followed by photographic copies of the Arabic manuscript, with English translation on the facing page. The tenth and eleventh centuries saw the apogee of Arabic science, and particularly in mathematics this was a fruitful period. From the time of al-Khwarizmi, in the ninth century, a succession of Arabic mathematicians made original contributions to the algorismic development of the fundamental arithmetical operations. Among these was Kushyar ibn Labban, whose Principles of Hindu Reckoning, here translated, is the oldest surviving mathematical text in Arabic using Hindu numerals. Kushyar, a Persian who wrote in the late tenth and early eleventh centuries, was primarily known as an astronomer, but he was influential in mathematics and was the teacher of the well-known algorist… Read More

1965. Madison & Milwaukee, University of Wisconsin Press, 1965. Orig. full cloth. XII,114 pp.