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al-Nuzhat al-ḥisāb li-Ibn al-Haʼīm

Title	al-Nuzhat al-ḥisāb li-Ibn al-Haʼīm
Publication Date:	1772
Subject	Arithmetic--Early works to 1900, Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad,---1412.--Murshidah fī ṣināʻat al-ghubār, Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.), Mathematics, Arab--Early works to 1800
Type	Document
Language	Arabic
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Library:	Harvard Library
Library Asset ID	LCCN: 2010471128, LCCallNum: QA101 .I255 1772
Record ID	TN_cdi_loca_primary_2010471128
Library Location	ONLINE ACCESS
Date	1772
Notes	According to Carl Brockelmann's Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur (Supplement II, p. 154), the text is an abridgement of the author's book al-Murshidah fī ṣināʻat al-ghubār. This manuscript is an 18th-century copy of Nuzhat al-ḥisāb (The excursion of calculus) by mathematician Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Farāḍī ibn al-Hā'im (around 1356-1412). The copyist of this brief but densely written codex provided his name and the date of the completion of his work in the colophon: at the bottom of the last page of the manuscript is stated that Aḥmad ibn Qāsim ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Hanbalī finished this copy in the year 1185 AH (1772). The Nuzhat al-ḥisāb is an abridgment by Ibn al-Hā'im of his own mathematical treatise entitled Murshid al-ṭālib ilā asnā' al-maṭālib (A student guide to the summit of learning). The main aim of this treatise is didactic. Numbers and arithmetical operations are presented in a systematic and very clear way. The author introduces his work with some preliminary notes on the different kind of numbers, their names and shapes. The first part of the manuscript focuses on the mathematics of integer numbers. The four usual basic operations--addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division--and a fifth, extraction of roots, are explained in detail through a number of practical examples. The second part deals with fractions and their properties. Using the same structure as in the first part, the author explains how to perform the five basic operations in the case of fractional numbers. The copyist embellished the manuscript with rubricated headings for the different sections, and used red ink to write figures, mathematical operations, and significant words in the text. World Digital Library.
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al-Nuzhat al-ḥisāb li-Ibn al-Haʼīm

Publication Date 1772

Subject Arithmetic--Early works to 1900, Ibn al-Hāʼim, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad,---1412.--Murshidah fī ṣināʻat al-ghubār, Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.), Mathematics, Arab--Early works to 1800

Type Document

Language Arabic

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Library Harvard Library

Library Asset ID LCCN: 2010471128, LCCallNum: QA101 .I255 1772

Record ID TN_cdi_loca_primary_2010471128

Library Location ONLINE ACCESS

Date 1772

Notes According to Carl Brockelmann's Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur (Supplement II, p. 154), the text is an abridgement of the author's book al-Murshidah fī ṣināʻat al-ghubār. This manuscript is an 18th-century copy of Nuzhat al-ḥisāb (The excursion of calculus) by mathematician Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Farāḍī ibn al-Hā'im (around 1356-1412). The copyist of this brief but densely written codex provided his name and the date of the completion of his work in the colophon: at the bottom of the last page of the manuscript is stated that Aḥmad ibn Qāsim ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Hanbalī finished this copy in the year 1185 AH (1772). The Nuzhat al-ḥisāb is an abridgment by Ibn al-Hā'im of his own mathematical treatise entitled Murshid al-ṭālib ilā asnā' al-maṭālib (A student guide to the summit of learning). The main aim of this treatise is didactic. Numbers and arithmetical operations are presented in a systematic and very clear way. The author introduces his work with some preliminary notes on the different kind of numbers, their names and shapes. The first part of the manuscript focuses on the mathematics of integer numbers. The four usual basic operations--addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division--and a fifth, extraction of roots, are explained in detail through a number of practical examples. The second part deals with fractions and their properties. Using the same structure as in the first part, the author explains how to perform the five basic operations in the case of fractional numbers. The copyist embellished the manuscript with rubricated headings for the different sections, and used red ink to write figures, mathematical operations, and significant words in the text. World Digital Library.

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