References for Rabbi Ben Ezra

1. M Levey, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. [Available on the Web]

Books:

3. F D Esteban (ed.), Abraham ibn Ezra and his age : Proceedings of the international symposium (Madrid, 1990).
4. G B Sarfatti, Mathematical terminology in Hebrew scientific literature of the Middle Ages (Jerusalem 1968).
5. I Twersky and J Harris (eds.), Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra : Studies in the writings of a twelfth century Jewish polymath (Cambridge MA, 1993).

Articles:

6. A R Amir-Moéz, Comparison of the methods of Ibn Ezra and Karkhi, Scripta Math. 23 (1957), 173-178.
7. E Craig (ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy 4 (London-New York, 1998), 647-654.
8. T Lévy, Hebrew mathematics in the middle ages : an assessment, in Tradition, transmission, transformation, Norman, OK, 1992/1993 (Leiden, 1996), 71-88.
9. B R Goldstein, Astronomy and astrology in the works of Abraham ibn Ezra, Arabic Sci. Philos. 6 (1) (1996), 3, 5, 9-21.
10. B Hughes, Problem-solving by Ajjub al-Basri, an early algebraist, J. Hist. Arabic Sci. 10 (1-2) (1994), 31-39; 150.
11. D E Smith and Y Ginsburg, Rabbi Ben Ezra and the Hindu-Arabic problem, Amer. Math. Monthly 25 (1918), 99-108.

November 1999