Discovery of a mathematical writing from the medieval Maghreb: the commentary of al-ˁUqbānī (d. 811/1408)
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- MELLAK, Lamine & AMARA, Allaoua (DZ)
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Ibn al-Yāsamīn’s poem in algebra (d. 601/1204) is considered one of the most widely spread mathematical texts in the Maghreb at the end of the Middle Ages. It has been the subject of thirteen comments among which we find that of Abū ˁUṯmān Saˁīd b. Muḥammad al-ˁUqbānī (d. 811/1408). The latter was considered lost by specialists in the history of Arabic mathematics. But after investigations in private libraries, we found a copy of this commentary in a collection of astronomy and mathematics preserved in the Zaouia al-ˁUṯmaniyya of Tolga in Algeria. As it has been written by several scholars, this didactic text testifies to the diffusion of comments and abstracts in the teaching of mathematics in the Muslim West.
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MELLAK, Lamine & AMARA, Allaoua. (2021). Découverte d’un écrit mathématique du Maghreb médiéval : le commentaire d’al-ˁUqbānī (m. 811/1408. Al-Andalus Magreb, (24), 111-122.