Arabic in the Sciences
Book of Algebra
الجبر
The Italian mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci, who learned arithmetic as a boy in Bejaia, Algeria, took many of Abu Kamil of Egypt's algebra problems into his Liber Abaci (1202), one of Europe's first books of algebra.
- Author
- Abu Kamil Shuja' ibn Aslam (d. c. 930)
- Field
- Mathematics
- Arabic title
- كتابٌ في الجبر والمقابلة
- Latin title
- Partial medieval Latin version (anonymous, edited by J. Sesiano 1993; MS Paris BnF lat. 7377A); Hebrew translation by Mordecai Finzi (Mantua, c. 1460–1473)
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