Alfonso's Rectifying the Curved : ​A Fourteenth-Century Hebrew Geometrical-Philosophical Treatise (Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences)

Glasner, Ruth/ Baraness, Avinoam

Springer International Publishing AG（2020/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 282 p.
• 商品コード 9783319773025

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A central issue is the use of motion and superposition in geometry, which is analyzed in depth through dialog with earlier Arab mathematicians.The author, Alfonso, was identified by Gita Gluskina (the editor of the 1983 Russian edition) as Alfonso of Valladolid, the converted Jew Abner of Burgos.