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

Subjects: Mathematics and Engineering
Paperback : 9780472751518, 188 pages, December 1969
Open Access : 9780472910533, 184 pages, December 1969
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Description

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.