Abstracts
Keywords:
- Ancient Greek Mathematics,
- Diophantus,
- Arithmetica,
- Arabic Sources,
- History of Algebra
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Biographical note
Nathan Sidoli is professor of the history and philosophy of science at the School for International Liberal Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo. His research focuses on the Greek mathematical sciences and their further development in Arabic sources. He is author of Thābit ibn Qurra’s Restoration of Euclid’s Data (2018, with Yoichi Isahaya), and The Spherics of Theodosios (2023, with R. S. D. Thomas).
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