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[W.S.] 
Author. 
el-Seich el-Ra’is, 
Ibn Sina), (born 
980 A.D.). 
i b. Ahmed, 
el 
1030 a.D.). 
10. Aba’l-Hosein b. 
Hosein b. ‘Ali el- 
Mas* adi (xth cen- 
tury 4.D.). 
ei Abraham (full 
ame and a 
doubtful), 
42. Ahmed b. 
‘Omar el-Karabi- 
* ge ixth coniury | 
ae 
el- | 
path | [? 10th cen- | 
| 
tury A.D.]. 
14, ‘Abderrahman 
him  el- Chaij sini 
born 1045 
John of eo 
w 
co], died 1244 ab D. 
References to Indian Mathematics. 
Work Notes. 
but oepcke wrongly trans- 
Hees v4 Ltharik al hindasi by 
“la méthode indienne’ (Jour- 
nal Asiati 1863, p. 50 
ae satisfactory | UWonscke (J. Asiatique, 1863, 
eatise on In- pp. 492-500) gives the intr 
he arithmetic. duction a n anil yata of 
{El-moqni ‘fi’l- this work e author refers 
his&b el-hindi]. to many Arab writers but to 
no ndus. The so-called 
Indian symbols are aa in 
fi . Ther e seven chap- 
ters on sexagesimal operations, 
etc., etc. See Suter 
Les Prairies d’Or See Pin translation ya C. 
de and de Cour- 
teille, “1861, p- 150. 
nent passage is given 
The whole text is ieean by 
Liber; aqugmenti et 
diminutionis, etc. Libri (Histoire Sct 
tig Italie, i, 304) 
At he beginning it is sta 
an 
Poors with 
duorum falsorum 
Salar, 65; 
Fihrist, 282. 
Indian Arithmetic Woepcke, 459; 
| Intian Arithmetic — ae = e, 54; Suter, 
H 
; Fihrist, I84 : er 
358. 
Suter 
Berney Pe ‘and 3 
“L’Algebred’Omar The sate writes: ‘‘ On 
Alkhayyami by | this eee ce 
F. Woepcke. of those weno the algebraists 
— ee a The 
thi rently.’’ 
| India: 
| Surety £ for ‘ Indians we should 
* geometers,’ p. 
See notes above and also 
Libri’s Histoire, eic., ii, 287; 
_ Woepeke’s Introduction de 
a étique indienne en Occi- 
Tractatus ep 
mt, 1236 A.D. 
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