al-Kūhī's revision of Book I of Euclid's \textit{Elements}

DOI10.1016/J.HM.2005.02.001MaRDI QIDQ2576313zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Glen Van Brummelen, J. L. Berggren

Publication date 27 December 2005

Published in Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2005.02.001

zbMATH Keywords

ElementsEuclidgeometryIslam

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the Golden Age of Islam (01A30)

Review text

An edition, from a single surviving ms., of an exposition of the first book of the \textit{Elements} by the 10th Cent. geometer Abu Sahl al-Kūhī, with a list of the corrections made by the editors and a full commented translation. The theorems of the book are rearranged and all constructions eliminated. Remarkable are a proof of the fourth postulate and a proof of the Pythagorean theorem very close to those based on the binomial formula.

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