Founding Figures and Commentators in Arabic Mathematics - Rashed, Roshdi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, France)

In this unique insight into the history and philosophy of mathematics and science in the mediaeval Arab world, the eminent scholar Roshdi Rashed illuminates the various historical, textual and epistemic threads that underpinned the history of Arabic mathematical and scientific knowledge in the ninth and tenth centuries.