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Jews and the Natural Sciences: Mathematics

Understanding science in the widest possible sense, this guide offers resources for how Jews investigate, react to, and engage with the physical universe.

Mathematics

  • Bergmann, Birgit
    Transcending Tradition: Jewish Mathematicians in German Speaking Academic Culture
    Berlin:  Springer Science & Business Media, 2012
    Van Pelt Library. QA28 .J8313 2012

  • Burnett, Charles and Lévy, Tony. eds. and trans.
     “Sefer ha-Middot: a Mid-Twelfth-Century Text on Arithmetic and Geometry Attributed to Abraham Ibn Ezra,” Aleph 6 (2006) 57-238
    Katz Center - Stacks. BM538.S3 A447
    Van Pelt Library. BM538.S3 A447

  • Feldman, William Moses
    Rabbinical Mathematics and Astronomy
    London, M.L. Cailingold, 1931
    Katz Center - Stacks. Q128 .F45 1931

  • Freudenthal, Gad
    “Abraham Ibn Daud, Avendauth, Dominicus Gundissalinus and Practical Mathematics in Mid-Twelfth Century Toledo,” Aleph (2016) 60-106
    Katz Center - Stacks. BM538.S3 A447
    Van Pelt Library. BM538.S3 A447

  • Gabai, Hyman
    Judaism, Mathematics, and the Hebrew Calendar
    Northvale NJ:  Jason Aronson, 2002
    Van Pelt Library. BM525 .G27 2002

  • James, Ioan Mackenzie
    Driven to Innovate: A Century of Jewish Mathematicians and Physicists
    Witney, England : Peter Lang, 2009
    Van Pelt Library. DS115 .J26 2009

  • Langermann Y. Tzvi
    “Mathematics in Medieval Hebrew Literature,” I:137-142 in, Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences (London ; New York : Routledge, 1994)
    Van Pelt Reference - Stacks. QA21 .E57 1994

  • Langermann, Y. Tzvi
    “Studies in Medieval Hebrew Pythagoreanism: Translations and Notes to Nicomachus Arithmological Texts,” Micrologus: nature, sciences and medieval societies IX (2001) 219-236
    Research Annex (LIBRA). Q124.97 .M537

  • Lévy, Tony
    “La mesure du cercle d'Archimede au moyen age:  le temoignage des textes hebreux,” pp. 103-137 in, Studies in the history of culture and science:  a tribute to Gad Freudenthal (Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011) ed. Resianne Fontaine
    Katz Center - Stacks. BM538.S3 S78 2011
    Van Pelt Library. BM538.S3 S78 2011

  • Lévy, Tony
    “The Hebrew Mathematics Culture (Twelfth-Sixteenth Centuries),” pp. 155-171 in, Science in medieval Jewish cultures (New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011) ed. Gad Freudenthal
    Van Pelt Library. Q128 .S35 2011

  • Lévy, Tony
    “A Newly-Discovered Partial Hebrew Version of al-Khārizmī's Algebra,” Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism 2 (2002) 223-234
    Katz Center - Stacks. BM538.S3 A447
    Van Pelt Library. BM538.S3 A447https://muse.jhu.edu/article/407513/pdf

  • Lévy, Tony
    “L'algèbre arabe dans les textes hébraïques (I) : un ouvrage inédit d'Isaac ben Salomon Al-Aḥdab (XVIe siècle), ” Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 13 (2003) 269-301
    Van Pelt Library. Q127.A5 A733

  • Lévy, Tony
    “L'algèbre arabe dans les textes hébraïques (II) : dans l'Italie des XVe et XVIe siècles : sources arabes et sources vernaculaires, ” Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 17 (2007) 82-87
    Van Pelt Library. Q127.A5 A733

  • Mizrahi, Elijah ben Abraham
    ספר המספר לחכם אליהו המזרחי   = Sefer ha-Mispar [on arithmetic]
    Constantinople:  Gershom ben Moses Soncino, 1534
    Vinograd, Kushta 150
    Available to view at Columbia University, Butler Library, Rare Book Room
    Parshall, Karen Hunger

  • James Joseph Sylvester: Jewish Mathematician in a Victorian World
    Baltimore:  JHU Press, 2006
    Van Pelt Library. QA29.S96 P375 2006

  • Rabinovitch, Nachum
    “Rabbi Hasdai Crescas on Numerical Infinities,” Isis 61 (1970) 224-230
    http://www.jstor.org/stable/229976

  • Richards, Edward Graham
    Mapping Time:  the calendar and its history
    Oxford ; New York :  Oxford University Press, 1998
    Van Pelt Reference - Stacks. CE11 .R5 1998

  • Rowe, David E.
    “‘Jewish Mathematics’ at Gottingen in the Era of Felix Klein,” Isis 77 (1986) 422-449
     http://www.jstor.org/stable/231607

  • Ruderman, David B.
    “Jewish thought in Newtonian England:  the career and writings of David Nieto,” Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research 58 (1992) 193-219
    Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. DS101 .A34
    Van Pelt - Judaica/Ancient Near East Resource Room (401). DS101 .A34
    http://www.jstor.org/stable/3622633

  • Spier, Arthur
    The Comprehensive Hebrew Calendar, 3rd revised edition
    Jerusalem ; New York :  Feldheim Publishers, 1956
    Katz Center - Reference Room. CE35 .S63 1986
    Van Pelt Reference - Stacks. CE35 .S63 1986

  • Steinschneider, Mortiz
    “Abraham ibn Ezra,” Zeitschrift für Mathematik und Physik.  Supplement Band 25 (1880) 57-128 [reprinted in Steinschneider, Gesammelte Schriften (Berlin: M. Poppelauer, 1925) edd. Heinrich Malter and Alexander Marx, vol. 1, pp. 407-498;  Katz Center - Stacks. DS115 .S75 1925, and Van Pelt Library. DS115 .S75 1980   .]
    https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044102937786;view=1up;seq=759;size=150   scroll down past two Heften to reach Abhandlungen zur geschichte der mathematischen wissenschaften

  • Wertheim, Gustav
    Die Arithmetik des Elia Misrachi:  ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Mathematik
    Braunschweig : Friedrich Vieweg, 1896
    Katz Center - Stacks. QA155.2 .W47 1896
    https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015063888609;view=1up;seq=5

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