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Episodes in the mathematics of medieval Islam
- J. Berggren
- Mathematics, History
- 1 October 1989
1. Introduction.- x1. The Beginnings of Islam.- x2. Islam's Reception of Foreign Science.- x3. Four Muslim Scientists.- Al-Khw?rizm?.- Al-B?r?n?.- 'Umar al-Khayy?m?.- Al-K?sh?.- x4. The Sources.- x5.… Expand
Geminos's Introduction to the phenomena : a translation and study of a Hellenistic survey of astronomy
- J. Evans, J. Berggren
- Physics
- 31 December 2007
History of Mathematics in the Islamic World: The Present State of the Art [1985]
- J. Berggren
- 1 July 1985
In recent years, many discoveries in the history of Islamic mathematics have not been reported outside the specialist literature, even though they raise issues of interest to a larger audience. Thus,… Expand
History of Greek mathematics: A survey of recent research
- J. Berggren
- History
- 1 November 1984
Abstract This survey reviews research in four areas of the history of Greek mathematics: (1) methods in Greek mathematics (the axiomatic method, the method of analysis, and geometric algebra); (2)… Expand
An algebraic characterization of finite symmetric tournaments
- J. Berggren
- Mathematics
- 1 February 1972
A tournament T is called symmetric if its automorphism group is transitive on the points and arcs of T . The main result of this paper is that if T is a finite symmetric tournament then T is… Expand