References for Thabit

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  1. Y Dold-Samplonius, A T Grigorian, B A Rosenfeld, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
  2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. [Available on the Web]

Books:

  1. F J Carmody, The Astronomical Works of Thabit b. Qurra (Berkeley-Los Angeles, 1960).
  2. F J Carmody, Thabit b. Qurra, Four Astronomical Tracts in Latin (Berkeley, Calif., 1941).
  3. E A Moody and M Clagett (eds.), The medieval science of weights, Treatises ascribed to Euclid, Archimedes, Thabit ibn Qurra, Jordanus de Nemore, and Blasius of Parma (Madison, Wis., 1952).
  4. R Rashed, The development of Arabic mathematics : between arithmetic and algebra (London, 1994).
  5. R Rashed, Entre arithmétique et algèbre: Recherches sur l'histoire des mathématiques arabes (Paris, 1984).

Articles:

  1. C B Boyer, Clairaut le Cadet and a theorem of Thabit ibn Qurra, Isis 55 (1964), 68-70.
  2. S Brentjes and J P Hogendijk, Notes on Thabit ibn Qurra and his rule for amicable numbers, Historia Math. 16 (4) (1989), 373-378.
  3. F J Carmody, Notes on the astronomical works of Thabit b. Qurra, Isis 46 (1955), 235-242.
  4. Y Dold-Samplonius, The 'Book of assumptions', by Thabit ibn Qurra (836-901), in History of mathematics (San Diego, CA, 1996), 207-222.
  5. H Hadifi, Thabit ibn Qurra's 'al-Mafrudat' (Arabic), Deuxième Colloque Maghrebin sur l'Histoire des Mathématiques Arabes (Tunis, 1990), A163-A164, 197-198.
  6. J P Hogendijk, Thabit ibn Qurra and the pair of amicable numbers 17296, 18416, Historia Math. 12 (3) (1985), 269-273.
  7. K Jaouiche, Le livre du qarastun de Tabit ibn Qurra. étude sur l'origine de la notion de travail et du calcul du moment statique d'une barre homogène, Arch. History Exact Sci. 13 (1974), 325-347.
  8. L M Karpova and B A Rosenfeld, The treatise of Thabit ibn Qurra on sections of a cylinder, and on its surface, Arch. Internat. Hist. Sci. 24 (94) (1974), 66-72.
  9. L M Karpova and B A Rozenfel'd, A treatise of Thabit ibn Qurra on composite ratios (Russian), in History Methodology Natur. Sci. V (Moscow, 1966), 126-130.
  10. G E Kurtik, The theory of accession and recession of Thabit ibn Qurra (Russian), Istor.-Astronom. Issled. 18 (1986), 111-150.
  11. G E Kurtik and B A Rozenfel'd, Astronomical manuscripts of Thabit ibn Qurra in the library of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Russian), Voprosy Istor. Estestvoznan. i Tekhn. (4) (1983), 79-80.
  12. K P Moesgaard, Thabit ibn Qurra between Ptolemy and Copernicus : an analysis of Thabit's solar theory, Arch. History Exact Sci. 12 (1974), 199-216.
  13. R Morelon, Tabit b. Qurra and Arab astronomy in the 9th century, Arabic Sci. Philos. 4 (1) (1994), 6; 111-139.
  14. S Pines, Thabit Qurra's conception of number and theory of the mathematical infinite, in 1968 Actes du Onzième Congrès International d'Histoire des Sciences Sect. III : Histoire des Sciences Exactes (Astronomie, Mathématiques, Physique) (Wroclaw, 1963), 160-166.
  15. B A Rozenfel'd and L M Karpova, Remarks on the treatise of Thabit ibn Qurra (Russian), in Phys. Math. Sci. in the East 'Nauka' (Moscow, 1966), 40-41.
  16. B A Rozenfel'd and L M Karpova, A treatise of Thabit ibn Qurra on composite ratios (Russian), in Phys. Math. Sci. in the East 'Nauka' (Moscow, 1966), 5-8.
  17. A I Sabra, Thabit ibn Qurra on the infinite and other puzzles : edition and translation of his discussions with Ibn Usayyid, Z. Gesch. Arab.-Islam. Wiss. 11 (1997), 1-33
  18. A Sayili, Thabit ibn Qurra's generalization of the Pythagorean theorem, Isis 51 (1960), 35-37.
  19. J Sesiano, Un complément de Tabit ibn Qurra au 'Per“ diairéseon' d'Euclide, Z. Gesch. Arab.-Islam. Wiss. 4 (1987/88), 149-159.
  20. K Taleb and R Bebouchi, Les infiniment grands de Thabit Ibn Qurra, in Histoire des mathématiques arabes (Algiers, 1988), 125-131.
  21. A P Yushkevich, Note sur les déterminations infinitésimales chez Thabit ibn Qurra, Arch. Internat. Histoire Sci. 17 (66) (1964), 37-45.
  22. A P Yushkevich, Quadrature of the parabola of ibn Qurra (Russian), in History Methodology Natur. Sci. V (Moscow, 1966), 118-125.
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