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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 A447

https://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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