Root extraction by al-Kashi and Stevin

DOI10.1007/S00407-015-0150-3MaRDI QIDQ2347247zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lakhdar Hammoudi, Nuh Aydin

Publication date 27 May 2015

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-015-0150-3

zbMATH Keywords

extraction of rootsJamshīd Al-KāshīSimon Stevin

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the Golden Age of Islam (01A30) History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40)

Review text

This article examines in detail the algorithms for extracting roots found in two texts on arithmetic separated by more than a century and a half: Jamshīd Al-Kāshī's 1427 book \textsl{Miftāh al-hisāb} and Simon Stevin's 1585 book \textsl{L'arithmétique.} The methods presented in the two texts are similar but not identical. The treatment here of Al-Kāshī's algorithm follows \textit{J. L. Berggren}'s discussion in [Episodes in the mathematics of medieval Islam. New York etc.: Springer-Verlag (1986; Zbl 0626.01001)], and the authors provide their own translation of an illustrative example from Stevin.

Recommendations

• Al-Kāshī's \textit{Miftāḥ al-ḥisab}. Volume III. Algebra. Translation and commentary
• Al-Kāshī's Miftāḥ al-Ḥisab, Volume I: Arithmetic
• Meftah Al-Hesab: a summary
• L'extraction de la racine \(n\)-ième et l'invention des fractions décimales (XI\(^e\) -- XII\(^e\) siècles)
• Root extraction by Niẓām al-Dīn al-Nīsābūrī (d. ca. 1330/730AH)

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