On Arithmetic & Geometry: An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Epistles 1-2

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Oxford: OUP in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies/Institute of Ismaili Studies (2012)
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This is the first critical edition of the first and second Epistles of the Brethren Purity--the Rasa 'il--in Arabic with a fully annotated English translation. It presents technical and epistemic analyses of mathematical concepts and their metaphysical bases, and an overview of the mathematical sciences within Islamic intellectual milieu.

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B746.A4.E52 2012

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