Filosofické aspekty al-Chvárizmího Aritmetického a Algebraického traktátu
Date issued
2010
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Západočeská univerzita v Plzni
Abstract
Al-Khwarizmi’s books Al-Kitab al-mukhtasar fi hisab al-jabr wa-l-muqabal (The Book of
Aljabr and Almuqabala) and Al-Kitab al-jam wa-t-tafriq bi-hisab al-Hind (a source for Dixit
Algorizmi) form the origin of the mathematics of calculations, i.e. arithmetic and algebra.
The first Czech translation of these books with the commentary by Petr Vopěnka was published
in 2008. The 2nd edition (2009), involves the three new additional texts. The purpose
of this contribution is an introduction to these source books with stressing out origins of Arabic
mathematics of calculations and the border lines between the Indian and Greek mathematics.
The paper deals with also some philosophical and methodical aspects of them.
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filosofie matematiky, arabská matematika, historie, středověk, Muhammad ibn Músa al-Chórézmí
Citation
Acta Fakulty filozofické Západočeské univerzity v Plzni. 2010, č. 3, s. 77-97.