scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1110553

MaRDI QIDQ4375091zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Ahmed S. Saidan

Publication date 10 February 1998

zbMATH Keywords

Arabic arithmetic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Review text

The author states that he has found the complete copy of Al-Baghdādī's main treatise, which he estimates to be one of the most important contributions to arithmetic by the medieval Arab scholars. He draws the following three commented examples from the treatise: 1) seeking \(x\) such that squared \(x+/-a\) is a perfect square, 2) calculating annual dues on savings, and 3) the game of guessing ``hidden numbers. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0881.00050].

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