Format: Hardback
Pages: 488
ISBN: 9781463204174
Pub Date: September 2015
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Price:
£163.00
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Description:
The first edition of The Epistle of the Number, composed in Syracuse, Sicily, at the end of the 14th century. It is the first known Hebrew treatise to include extensive algebraic theories and procedures, exposing novel mathematical vocabulary, and enhancing our understanding of the linguistic mechanisms which helped create scientific vocabulary in medieval Hebrew.