The Arithmetic of Al-Uclīdisī: The Story of Hindu-Arabic Arithmetic as told in Kitāb al-Fuṣūl fī al-Ḥisāb al-Hindī

The purpose of presenting this book to the scholarly world is twofold. In the first place, I wish to provide for the English reader a translation of the earliest extant Arabic work of Hindi arithmetic. It shows this system at its earliest stages and the first steps in its development, a subject not yet well known except for readers of some Arabic publications by the present writer. This book is therefore of particular importance for students of the history of mathematical techniques. The medieval author, AI-UqHdisI, was, it seems, not noticed by bibliographers; neither was his work, which lay hardly noticed by modern scholars until 1960 when I happened to see a microfilm copy of it in the Institute of Arabic Manu­ scripts in Cairo. A steady labour immediately followed to make a comparative study of the text together with over twenty other texts, some of them not yet known to scholars. This pursuit resulted in (i) a doctoral degree awarded to me in 1966 by the University of Khartoum, (ii) the publication of several texts in Arabic including the text here translated, and (iii) the publication of several articles in Arabic and English on the history of arithmetic in the Middle Ages. The second purpose of this book is to make the main results of my study available to the English reader. Saidan_001 Saidan_002 Saidan_003 Saidan_004 Saidan_005 Saidan_006 Saidan_007 Saidan_008 Saidan_009 Saidan_010 Saidan_011 Saidan_012 Saidan_013 Saidan_014 Saidan_015 Saidan_016 Saidan_017 Saidan_018 Saidan_019 Saidan_020 Saidan_021 Saidan_022 Saidan_023 Saidan_024 Saidan_025 Saidan_026 Saidan_027 Saidan_028 Saidan_029 Saidan_030 Saidan_031 Saidan_032 Saidan_033 Saidan_034 Saidan_035 Saidan_036 Saidan_037 Saidan_038 Saidan_039 Saidan_040 Saidan_041 Saidan_042 Saidan_043 Saidan_044 Saidan_045 Saidan_046 Saidan_047 Saidan_048 Saidan_049 Saidan_050 Saidan_055 Saidan_056 Saidan_057 Saidan_058 Saidan_059 Saidan_060 Saidan_061 Saidan_062 Saidan_063 Saidan_064 Saidan_065 Saidan_066 Saidan_067 Saidan_068 Saidan_069 Saidan_070 Saidan_071 Saidan_072 Saidan_073 Saidan_074 Saidan_075 Saidan_076 Saidan_077 Saidan_078 Saidan_079 Saidan_080 Saidan_081 Saidan_082 Saidan_083 Saidan_084 Saidan_085 Saidan_086 Saidan_087 Saidan_088 Saidan_089 Saidan_090 Saidan_091 Saidan_092 Saidan_093 Saidan_094 Saidan_095 Saidan_096 Saidan_097 Saidan_098 Saidan_099 Saidan_100 Saidan_101 Saidan_102 Saidan_103 Saidan_104 Saidan_105 Saidan_106 Saidan_107 Saidan_108 Saidan_109 Saidan_110 Saidan_111 Saidan_112 Saidan_113 Saidan_114 Saidan_115 Saidan_116 Saidan_117 Saidan_118 Saidan_119 Saidan_120 Saidan_121 Saidan_122 Saidan_123 Saidan_124 Saidan_125 Saidan_126 Saidan_127 Saidan_128 Saidan_129 Saidan_130 Saidan_131 Saidan_132 Saidan_133 Saidan_134 Saidan_135 Saidan_136 Saidan_137 Saidan_138 Saidan_139 Saidan_140 Saidan_141 Saidan_142 Saidan_143 Saidan_144 Saidan_145 Saidan_146 Saidan_147 Saidan_148 Saidan_149 Saidan_150 Saidan_151 Saidan_152 Saidan_153 Saidan_154 Saidan_155 Saidan_156 Saidan_157 Saidan_158 Saidan_159 Saidan_160 Saidan_161 Saidan_162 Saidan_163 Saidan_164 Saidan_165 Saidan_166 Saidan_167 Saidan_168 Saidan_169 Saidan_170 Saidan_171 Saidan_172 Saidan_173 Saidan_174 Saidan_175 Saidan_176 Saidan_177 Saidan_178 Saidan_179 Saidan_180 Saidan_181 Saidan_182 Saidan_183 Saidan_184 Saidan_185 Saidan_186 Saidan_187 Saidan_188 Saidan_189 Saidan_190 Saidan_191 Saidan_192 Saidan_193 Saidan_194 Saidan_195 Saidan_196 Saidan_197 Saidan_198 Saidan_199 Saidan_200 Saidan_201 Saidan_202 Saidan_203 Saidan_204 Saidan_205 Saidan_206 Saidan_207 Saidan_208 Saidan_209 Saidan_210 Saidan_211 Saidan_212 Saidan_213 Saidan_214 Saidan_215 Saidan_216 Saidan_217 Saidan_218 Saidan_219 Saidan_220 Saidan_221 Saidan_222 Saidan_223 Saidan_224 Saidan_225 Saidan_226 Saidan_227 Saidan_228 Saidan_229 Saidan_230 Saidan_231 Saidan_232 Saidan_233 Saidan_234 Saidan_235 Saidan_236 Saidan_237 Saidan_238 Saidan_239 Saidan_240 Saidan_241 Saidan_242 Saidan_243 Saidan_244 Saidan_245 Saidan_246 Saidan_247 Saidan_248 Saidan_249 Saidan_250 Saidan_251 Saidan_252 Saidan_253 Saidan_254 Saidan_255 Saidan_256 Saidan_257 Saidan_258 Saidan_259 Translated And Annotated By A. S. Saidan, From The Unique Copy Ms. 802 At Yani Gami Library, Istanbul, Written In The Year 582 (a.d. 1186). Includes Index. Bibliography: P. Xiii-xvii.