Revisiting al-Samaw'al's table of binomial coefficients: Greek inspiration, diagrammatic reasoning and mathematical induction

DOI10.1007/S00407-015-0156-XzbMath1332.01010OpenAlexW638818748MaRDI QIDQ889611

Sanaa Bajri, Clemency Montelle, John Hannah

Publication date: 9 November 2015

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10092/11738

zbMATH Keywords

mathematical inductionPascal trianglebinomial theoremGreek influenceIslamic algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the Golden Age of Islam (01A30) History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20)

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• DRaFT

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