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Mutual Influences of the Arabic and European Mathematics

Dževad Zečić


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Abstract

The development of mathematics in Arabic language, in the Middle Ages, reached its peak by the 13Ih Century and then Europe was prepared to accept that Science. It was only in the 15th Century with the Summa de arithmetica, written by Luca Pacioli, that Hindu-Arabic numbers came to be generally accepted and that was when the development of new ideas started in European mathematics. Science in Ottoman Turkey by the 19th Century had consisted of »the Science in Arabic and Persian language« as well as their continuation that meant mostly its further decline. With the Ottoman Rule, Bosnia entered the sphere of Islamic-Oriental civilization reflected in ali aspects of life. Arabic manuscripts of the classic Arabic period preserved and kept in Gazi Husrevbey Library in Sarajevo originate from that time. In the 18th Century the first military reform in Turkey made it possible for the foreign experts to come and widen the influence of the European Science onto the »Science in Arabic«. Thereby, in Ottoman Turkey, a full circle of mutual influences of Arabic and European mathematics has come to its natural close.

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Hrčak ID:

202608

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https://hrcak.srce.hr/202608

Publication date:

22.12.2004.

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