The Epistle of the Number by Ibn Al-Aḥdab : The Transmission of Arabic Mathematics to Hebrew Circles in Medieval Sicily

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. TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FOREWORD HEBREW ABBREVIATIONS HEBREW AND ARABIC TRANSLITERATION CHAPTER 1: IBN AL-AHDAB CHAPTER 2: THE HEBREW AND ARABIC EPISTLES CHAPTER 3: A MATHEMATICAL COMMENTARY OF THE EPISTLE OF THE NUMBER CHAPTER 4: THE UNICUM CHAPTER 5: AN EDITION OF THE EPISTLE OF THE NUMBER CHAPTER 6: AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE EPISTLE OF THE NUMBER CHAPTER 7: A LEXICON OF THE MATHEMATICAL TERMS IN BOOK II BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX