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HIST 350: Decolonial Histories of Mathematics and Astronomy (HC)

History 350: Decolonial Histories of Mathematics and Astronomy (Kumar) Fall 2020

Clay tablet of geometry and algebra

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Title page of Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī's The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing (الْكِتَابْ الْمُخْتَصَرْ فِيْ حِسَابْ الْجَبْرْ وَالْمُقَابَلَة‎, Al-kitāb al-mukhtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-ğabr wa’l-muqābala), a treatise on algebra. (Source: Wikimedia Commons, public domain).  Opening pages in English.

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