This book presents episodes from the mathematics of medieval Islam; work which has had a great impact on the development of mathematics. The author describes the subject in its proper historical context; referring to specific Arabic texts. Among the topics discussed are decimal arithmetic; plane and spherical trigonometry; algebra; interpolation and approximation of roots of equations. This book should be of great interest to historians of mathematics; as well as to students of mathematics. The presentation is readily accessible to anyone with a background in high school mathematics.
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