For centuries, the historic Silk Road city of Nishapur in eastern Iran has been famed for art, mysticism, and philosophy. Today, it is perhaps best known thanks to medieval master of arts and sciences ...
More than 1,200 years ago, in the intellectual heart of Abbasid Baghdad, a Persian scholar quietly reshaped how humans understand numbers, problems and logic. His name was Muhammad ibn Musa ...
A RECENT number of the American Mathematical Monthly (56, No. 1, Pt. 2, pp. 114 ; University of Buffalo, N.Y. ; 1 dollar), entitled "Outline of the History of Mathematics" by R. C. Archibald, ...