{"title":"Withdrawal notice to: Mathematical cognition related to the large numbers in early societies: A study based on 5th-century Buddhist Commentaries in Sri Lanka. [Hist. Math. 67 (2024) 1–12]","authors":"Chandana Jayawardana","doi":"10.1016/j.hm.2024.08.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hm.2024.08.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article has been withdrawn at the request of the editor and publisher.</div><div>The publisher regrets that an error occurred which led to the premature publication of this paper. This error bears no reflection on the article or its authors. The publisher apologizes to the authors and the readers for this unfortunate error.</div><div>The full Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal can be found at (<span><span>https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/article-withdrawal</span><svg><path></path></svg></span>).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51061,"journal":{"name":"Historia Mathematica","volume":"69 ","pages":"Page 71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143136681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Additive and subtractive as relational entities in the algebra of al-Zanjānī (and his predecessors)","authors":"Eleonora Sammarchi","doi":"10.1016/j.hm.2024.09.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hm.2024.09.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the texts of the arithmetical-algebraic tradition initiated by al-Karajī (11th c.), the terms of a composite algebraic expression are considered to be positive or negative only in the sense of relational entities. Indeed, within the rules for operating with these algebraic expressions, additives and subtractives represent operands, and tabular methods allow one to compute with subtractives more freely. The strategies adopted for impossible problems further confirm the relational nature of these entities. In my article, I examine these aspects by considering the work of al-Zanjānī (13th c.) and of his predecessors al-Karajī and al-Samaw'al.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51061,"journal":{"name":"Historia Mathematica","volume":"69 ","pages":"Pages 22-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143136683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Euclidean terms in European languages, 1482–1703","authors":"Benjamin Wardhaugh","doi":"10.1016/j.hm.2024.07.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hm.2024.07.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper reports on the degree of lexical instability in European translations of the <em>Elements</em> published up to the end of the seventeenth century. As well as the intrinsic interest of the formation and stabilization of a Euclidean tradition in these languages, the wide visibility of Euclidean material in the period makes it likely that the terminological choices made by early translators were influential in the wider formation of mathematical vocabularies in the languages concerned. The paper shows that instability was distributed unevenly across languages and semantic areas, and reports where the pockets of higher and lower instability were located.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51061,"journal":{"name":"Historia Mathematica","volume":"68 ","pages":"Pages 22-37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0315086024000739/pdfft?md5=ca4989eaae120bfbaa21ae8abdc676e0&pid=1-s2.0-S0315086024000739-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142312353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Hebrew translation of Euclid's Elements ascribed to Rabbi Jacob: A new analysis following the \"Discovery\" of the arabic version in MS Paris, BULAC ARA. 606","authors":"Ofer Elior","doi":"10.1016/j.hm.2024.02.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hm.2024.02.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Hebrew translation of Euclid's <em>Elements</em> ascribed to Rabbi Jacob is based on two leading sources. The definitions and the enunciations rely on an extant Arabic version which until recently was commonly considered to be a revision made by Thābit ibn Qurra of a translation by Isḥāq ibn Ḥunayn. The proofs and diagrams are based on a different version whose exact identity is unknown and had strong affinity to an Arabic version of the <em>Elements</em> axcribed to al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar. Focusing on the first six Books, this paper presents a fresh analysis of the sources and use of sources in Rabbi Jacob's translation, on the basis of a systematic comparison of this translation to the recently “discovered” new source of al-Ḥajjāj's work, namely the Arabic version of the <em>Elements</em> in MS Paris, BULAC ARA. 606.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51061,"journal":{"name":"Historia Mathematica","volume":"68 ","pages":"Pages 1-21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142312492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Henk J. M. Bos (1940–2024): A first assessment of his legacy in the field of history of mathematics","authors":"Niccolò Guicciardini","doi":"10.1016/j.hm.2024.07.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hm.2024.07.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51061,"journal":{"name":"Historia Mathematica","volume":"68 ","pages":"Pages 40-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141850358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Richness of the History of Mathematics: A Tribute to Jeremy Gray. Karine Chemla, José Ferreirós, Lizhen Ji, Erhard Scholz, Chang Wang (eds.). Springer, 2023","authors":"François Lê","doi":"10.1016/j.hm.2024.07.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hm.2024.07.003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51061,"journal":{"name":"Historia Mathematica","volume":"68 ","pages":"Pages 38-39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142312354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Julio Samsó, On both sides of the strait of Gibraltar: Studies in the history of medieval astronomy in the Iberian Peninsula and the Maghrib. Leiden: Brill, 2020. XXI+1005 pp, ISBN 978-90-04-43656-5. Handbook of Oriental Studies, Section 1, The Near and Middle East, Vol. 144. Price 207 Euro","authors":"Jan P. Hogendijk","doi":"10.1016/j.hm.2024.04.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2024.04.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51061,"journal":{"name":"Historia Mathematica","volume":"67 ","pages":"Page 15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141314441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}