References for Al-Baghdadi

  1. S Pines, A S Saidan, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).

Books:

  1. R Rashed, The development of Arabic mathematics : between arithmetic and algebra (London, 1994).
  2. R Rashed, Entre arithmétique et algèbre: Recherches sur l'histoire des mathématiques arabes (Paris, 1984).

Articles:

  1. A Saidan, The 'Takmila fi'l-Hisab' of al-Baghdadi, in From deferent to equant (New York, 1987), 437-443.

November 1999

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