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Description of  Mathematics and Physics in Classical Islam Comparative Perspectives in the History and the Philosophy of Science (Crossroads - History of Interactions Across the Silk Routes, 5)

This volume highlights the scientific advances and ruptures of classical Islam with respect to Hellenism, and the emergence of a new mathematical rationality and a new relationship between mathematics and physics, from a comparative synchronic and diachronic perspective.