This book presents an account of selected topics from key mathematical works of medieval Islam, based on the Arabic texts themselves. Many of these works had a

First published in 1202, Fibonacci’s Liber Abaci was one of the most important books on mathematics in the Middle Ages, introducing Arabic numerals and method

In recent decades it has become obvious that mathematics has always been a worldwide activity. But this is the first book to provide a substantial collection of

This book briefly examines the history the sciences in the early Islamic world.