Bücher von Jacques Sesiano

The science of magic squares witnessed an important development in the Islamic world during the Middle Ages, with a great variety of construction methods being created and ameliorated.

This volume contains the texts and translations of two Arabic treatises on magic squares, which are undoubtedly the most important testimonies on the early history of that science.

This book provides a translation and commentary of the principal source on mathematics of 12th-century Islamic Spain, the Liber Mahameleth. It also analyzes all the problems from the text and includes a summary of the mathematical methods involved.

This edition of Books IV to VII of Diophantus' Arithmetica, which are extant only in a recently discovered Arabic translation, is the outgrowth of a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Brown University Department of the History of Mathematics in May 1975.