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  1. The Astronomy of Levi ben Gerson (1288-1344): A Critical Edition of Chapters 1-20 with Translation and Commentary (Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences) by Bernard R. Goldstein, 1985-07-15
  2. The Astronomical Tables of Levi Ben Gerson (Connecticut Academy of Arts & Sciences Series, Vol 45) by Bernard R. Goldstein, 1974-06
  3. Philosophie religieuse de Lévi-Ben-Gerson (French Edition) by Isidore. Weil, 1868-01-01
  4. Astronomy of Levi Ben Gerson, 1288-1344
  5. Levi Ben Gerson's Prognostication for the Conjunction of 1345 (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society) by Bernard R. Goldstein, David Pingree, 1990-11
  6. Preliminary remarks on Levi ben Gerson's contributions to astronomy, (Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Proceedings) by Bernard R Goldstein, 1969
  7. R. Levi Ben Gerson: A bibliographical essay by Menachem Marc Kellner, 1979
  8. Introduction to the History of Science. Volume 3, Science and Learning in the Fourteenth Century. Part I, The Time of Abu-l-Fida, Levi ben Gerson, and William of Occam (First half of the fourteenth century) by G. Sarton, 1962
  9. Sefer Maassei Choscheb. Die Praxis des Rechners. Ein hebraisch-arithmetisches Werk des Levi Ben Gerschom aus dem jahre 1321. by Gerson (ed.). Levi ben Gershom [GERSONIDES]; LANGE, 1909-01-01

41. Math 300 Guidelines For Papers
ibn Qurra Gerbert d'Aurillac Ibn alHaytham Mohammad al-Biruni Omar Khayyam Nasiral-Din al-Tusi Leonardo of Pisa Qin Jiushao levi ben gerson Nicole Oresme
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Math 300 Great Moments in Mathematics
Spring 2002
Guidelines for papers
You will prepare two research papers for this course:
  • a biographical paper, due February 21 , that relates the mathematical career of a noted historical figure born before 1700; and a paper due April 18 that performs a critical reading of an original source of importance in the history of mathematics.
Your biographical paper should conform to the following guidelines, listed in order of importance, and will be evaluated against them:
  • The paper should present a comprehensively researched discussion of the life history of your chosen mathematician; this person's significant mathematical accomplishments must be thoroughly discussed. (35%) It should be presented in a clear and coherent writing style , using correct spelling, proper pronunciation and good grammar. (25%) It should contain a bibliography with at least three sources including at least three print-published (not Web) sources, it should make appropriate use of direct quotations , and should include in-text citations (as either footnotes or endnotes). (25%)

42. BSHM: Abstracts -- M
Mancha, JL, ‘Heuristic reasoning approximation procedures in levi ben gerson’sastronomy’, Archive for history of exact sciences 52 (1998), 1350 An
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A B C D ... Z These listings contain all abstracts that have appeared in BSHM Newsletters up to Newsletter 46. BSHM Abstracts - M Maanen, Jan van, ‘Seventeenth century instruments for drawing conic sections’, Mathematical gazette
A consequence of Descartes’ new approach to geometry (1637) was an increased interest in instruments for drawing conic sections. This article sketches the background to this growing interest and describes some of the instruments designed by the Dutch mathematician Van Schooten (1615/6-1660). Maanen, Jan van, ‘The ‘double-meaning’ method for dating mathematical texts’, M. Folkerts and J.P. Hogendijk (eds), Vestigia mathematica , Rodopi 1993, pp. 253-263
A mathematical text may contain numerical data concealing information about the text or its author. Questions of dating and authorship of certain texts can be resolved by decoding such information. Notices of the AMS
MacKenzie, Donald, ‘Slaying the Kraken: the sociohistory of a mathematical proof’

43. BSHM: Abstracts -- L
found in two Hebrew mathematical treatises. The reconstruction of thequadrature by levi ben gerson (12881344) is wholly original.
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A B C D ... Z These listings contain all abstracts that have appeared in BSHM Newsletters up to Newsletter 46. BSHM Abstracts - L Lacki, Jan, ‘The early axiomatizations of quantum mechanics: Jordan, von Neumann and the continuation of Hilbert’s program’, Archive for history of exact sciences
When Hilbert’s axiomatization of physical theories faced the rise of quantum mechanics, the novelty of the mathematics was matched by its lack of physical interpretation. Von Neumann, the most outstanding of Hilbert’s heirs, continued his programme and pushed it to the limit, blending axiomatic rigour with interpretative commitment. Lam Lay Yong, ‘Jiu zhang suanshu (Nine chapters on the mathematical art): an overview’, Archive for history of exact sciences
Jiu zhang suanshu
is one of the earliest and most important Chinese texts, and is built on a rod-numeral system with conceptually the same decimal place-value structure (albeit with alternating orientation) as our own. It encompassedprobably most of Chinese mathematical knowledge at the beginning of the second century AD, and had a great influence. Archive for history of exact sciences
Langermann, Y. Tzvi, ‘Mediaeval hebrew texts on the quadrature of the lune’

44. Rabbi JOSEPH CARLEBACH
Das Heilige Land. (The Holy Land). 1909. levi ben gerson Als Mathematiker. (Leviben Gerson mathematician). 1910. Liberales Judentum u. Judische Tradition.
http://www.jct.ac.il/judaica/ashkenaz/carlebj.html
Rabbi JOSEPH CARLEBACH
(Son of Salomon Carlebach b. Lubeck 1883; deported to Riga, November, 1941; murdered by the Nazis with his wife and three of his children in March, 1942. Educated at Berlin Rabbinical Seminary and Berlin University, where he graduated. Rabbi Joseph Carlebach began his career as a teacher at the Laemel Teachers' Seminary, Jerusalem (1905-1908). During the first World War he was called to Kovno (Lithuania) to serve as educational adviser to the German military government and was entrusted with the task of organising a Jewish Secondary School, becoming its headmaster (1916-1919). Further appointments: Rabbi of Lubeck 1919-1924 Headmaster of " Talmud Thora" Secondary School , Hamburg, 1924-1927 Chief Rabbi of Altona 1927-1937 Chief Rabbi of Hamburg (and the last incumbent of this office before the Nazi holocause) 1937-1941. Rabbi Joseph Carlebach was a great orator and a writer of distinction. Although he would have saved his life by leaving Germany in time, he stayed at his post to comfort and support his brethren.
Publications:
  • Das Heilige Land. (The Holy Land). 1909.

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46. Manuscript Detail
His astronomy was derived mainly from alBatt?n? (Albategnius) and levi ben gerson;that is, it was Greek-Arabic astronomy, as it had been gradually corrected
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47. Olivier's Opinion #006
If we come back to Rabbi levi ben gerson, I agree with Doron that probably, likemany of us, he was fascinated by the plays of these charming entities that
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About Doron Zeilberger's Opinion #36
While I am very sympathetic with Doron Zeilberger's frank and direct way of expressing his ideas and while most of the mathematics he does with his companion Shalosh B. Ekhad has a strong appeal to me, I am far to agree with it on many minor aspects of his opinions. (It is better to have read Doron Zeilberger's text before reading this. See: and for the feedback he received from various people go to As english is not my mother tongue, any comment on the spelling, grammar or style of this text is welcome. Please mail it to me
    Mathematician=programmer ?
  • No, a Ph. D. in math does not warrant at all the ability to learn programming, even when one has removed those very common psychological blocks DZ refers to. There is a lot to unlearn, there is the whole social implication of a researcher in the academic system. Moreover, we all now math Ph. D. who aren't smart *at all* and especially about mathematics. Introducing this kind of public to even mathematically-minded computer macro-languages like TeX is sometimes worth Hercules' works. Part of the trouble with any academic system is that there are areas, times and circonstances were you can be dubbed "researcher" or "professor" by only being a good schoolboy, no need to be smart or creative about the subject. In fact, the mathematics researchers I know who program well had most of the time a keen interest in programming or computers before they graduated. It makes me appreciate even more the senior mathematicians who are good with these tools or who switched successfully at a late stage in their career.

48. The Hyperbolic Geometry Exhibit
alHaytham's proof and Umar Khayyam's resulting criticism. Medievil scholarsVitello (Poland, 1230-1275?); levi ben gerson (South France, 1288-1344);
http://www.math.ubc.ca/~robles/hyperbolic/eucl/prll/struggle.html

49. Philosophische Buecherei - Philosophen G
Translate this page Georg von Trapezunt (1395-1472/1473). Gerbert von Aurillac (ca. 950-1003). JeanGerson (Johannes Gersonius) (1363-1429). levi ben gerson (Gersonides) (gest.
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... neu aufgenommene Seite Salomo ben Jehuda ibn Gabirol (Avicebron, Avencebrol) (ca. 1020-1058 od. ca. 1070) Hans Georg Gadamer (1900-2002)
  • D Hans Georg Gadamer (Etsuro Makita / Gadamer Homepage) D Philosophie Hans-Georg Gadamer ist tot (Spiegel online, 14.3.2002)
    Nachruf auf Hans Georg Gadamer The Hans Georg Gadamer Homepage (Kris Murray) D Festakt zu Ehren des 100. Geburtstages von Hans Georg Gadamer (Universität Heidelberg)
    Nicht nur eine Dokumentation des Festaktes am 11.2.2000, sondern auch eine profunde Einführung in Gadamers Biographie und Werk von Dieter Borchmeyer D Hans-Georg Gadamer: Aus: Wahrheit und Methode (Axel W. Bauer) D Jens Kertscher: Wahrheit mit Methode - Gadamer zum 100.
  • Galenos (Galen) (129-210) Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

    50. Faculty
    Professor Goldstein has written extensively on medieval Jewish sciencewith special attention to the work of levi ben gerson Gersonides.
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    FACULTY ASSOCIATED WITH THE JEWISH STUDIES PROGRAM
    Core faculty
    Alexander Orbach is associate professor of Modern Jewish History in the Department of Religious Studies and the Department of History at the University of Pittsburgh. He teaches a variety of courses focused on the Jewish experience in the modern age including courses on Russian Jewry, Zionism, the State of Israel, and the Holocaust. Mr. Orbach has written on each of these themes and is currently working on a study of Jewish politics in Tsarist Russia in the period 1900-1914. Alexander Orbach is the Director of the Jewish Studies Program and may be reached at (412) 624-2279 or by e-mail orbach@pitt.edu Adam Shear is instructor in Medieval and Early Modern Judaism in the Department of Religious Studies. Mr. Shear offers courses examining medieval and early modern Jewish life in Europe including an introduction to Jewish-Christian relations. In his written work, Mr. Shear has studied the reception by Jews in the Renaissance and early modern periods of Judah HaLevi's twelfth century work Book of the Kuzari. Mr. Shear may be reached at (412) 624-2280 or by e-mail ashear@pitt.edu

    51. History Of Astronomy: Persons (G)
    astronomy); Links to WWW sources. Gersonides see levi ben gerson (12881344);Getaldic Ghetaldi, Marin Marino (1568-1626) Biographical
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    52. History Of Astronomy: What's New At This Site On May 29, 2000
    Joseph (18111877) Very short biography. levi ben gerson Gersonides(1288-1344) Very short biography. Levi-Civita, Tullio (1873
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    53. American Philosophical Society Publications
    Transactions 787. Goldstein, Bernard R., levi ben gerson's Prognosticationfor the Conjunction of 1345, Transactions 80-6. Goldstine, Herman
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    Translate this page Vale también recordar que la empresa del Descubrimiento se nutrió con variosaportes de estudiosos judíos como el astrónomo levi ben gerson (de Provenza
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    55. Biographien - Archiv
    Levihttp//www.bautz.de/bbkl/l/Levi.shtml levi ben gerson (1288-1345) http//www
    http://www.biografien-im-netz.de/archiv.php?Letter=L&Page=800

    56. Islamic Philosophy: Transmission Into Western Europe
    several scholars in the south of France, Catalonia and Italy, including Moses ibnTibbon, Shem Tov Ibn Falaquera, levi ben gerson (see Gersonides) and Moses of
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    Islamic philosophy: transmission into Western Europe
  • Early translations: twelfth century Thirteenth-century translations The contribution of Jewish scholars The beginnings of Arabic scholarship
  • 1. Early translations: twelfth century
    Some seventy works were translated from Arabic by Gerard of Cremona , nicknamed 'the Master' ( dictus magister ), at the cathedral of Toledo. These included Aristotle's Posterior Analytics Physics On Generation and Corruption and Meteorology I-III (see Aristotle ), as well as four short tracts on natural science by Alexander of Aphrodisias . To these originally Greek works, Gerard added four philosophical letters of al-Kindi , a letter on proof by the Ikhwan al-Safa' and al-Farabi's Kitab ihsa' al-'ulum (On the Classification of the Sciences) (see al-Farabi Also at this time, the importance of the al-Shifa' (Healing) of Avicenna (Ibn Sina) was brought to the notice of Archbishop John of Toledo by a Jewish scholar called 'Avendauth' (perhaps the same as Abraham Ibn Daud , the author of al-'Aqida al-rafi'a (The Exalted Faith) ). Portions of the text, including those on universals, physics (in part), the soul and metaphysics, were translated by Avendauth, Dominicus Gundissalinus (an archdeacon in the cathedral

    57. Kleine Publicaties Nr. 5 - Titel
    Translate this page Tabulae de mansionibus lunae. - Tractatus astronomici II. - levi ben gerson Leonisde Bagnolo Tabulae astronomicae. - Ioannae d'Estutoville Horoscopium.
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    Westerse handschriften
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    CODICES SCALIGERANI (SCA)
    Conf. P.C. Molhuysen, Bibliothecae Universitatis Leidensis Codices Manuscripti, Pars II, Codices Scaligerani praeter orientales (1910).
    Tabula

    SCA 1
    Adelardi Bathensis Reguli abaci.
    SCA 2
    Eusebii Pamphili Historia ecclesiastica ex recensione Rufini. - Didymus Alexandrinus de Spiritu sancto ex versione Hieronymi. - Series episcoporum. - Henrici Huntindonensis Historiae.
    SCA 3
    Pappi Alexandrini Collectionis lbb. II-VIII.
    SCA 4
    Apollonii Pergaei Conica.
    SCA 5 Procopii Historiarum libri VIII. SCA 6 Agrimensorum Romanorum fragmenta. SCA 7 Georgii Chrysococcae Expositio in Syntaxin Persarum. SCA 8 Tabulae astronomicae. SCA 9 Procopius de Aedificiis Iustiniani. SCA 10 I.I. Scaligeri Excerpta ex scriptoribus graecis historicis et chronographicis. SCA 11 I.I. Scaligeri Index in I. Gruteri Inscriptiones antiquas. SCA 12 Heronis Alexandrini Opera geometrica et stereometrica. - Michael Psellus de Corporibus coelestibus eorumque motibus.

    58. The Newberry Library: Smith Center: Mapline 84/85 Feature
    of Aragon. His work in turn was based on the observations and tablesof levi ben gerson and Abraham bar Hiyya. The Jewish Catalan
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    Issue 84/85, Fall 1998
    ASTROLABES AND MAPS
    Some time during the Middle Ages people began to make measured maps designed for practical use in navigation. The oldest surviving example is the Pisan chart, now in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. It dates from the late 13th century, but there is no reason to believe that it was the first of its kind. Unlike the mappamundi, which co-existed with the portolan charts for a long time, the new maps emphasized purely geographical features with little of the historical, religious, and fabulous information so prominently displayed on the mappamundi. Among the many questions raised by the portolan charts, one of the most vexing is that of their construction. What kind of instruments were used to make their meticulously drawn coastlines? No written evidence survives from the earliest period of their existence. However, we do know that two tools, useful for making measured maps, were introduced into Europe in the Middle Ages. These were the astrolabes, which appeared in the tenth century, and the compass in the twelfth. The possible use of the compass in making the charts, which are marked by compass roses and rhumb lines, has been widely discussed, though no firm conclusions have been drawn. The use of the astrolabe has been treated very little. The next oldest dates from the 14th century, though it is possible that Western Europeans were using astrolabes of Islamic manufacture imported through Spain.

    59. A History Of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy
    of the main arguments and teachings of Moses Maimonides, Isaac Israeli, Judah Halevi,Abraham Ibn Daud, Hillel ben Samuel, levi ben gerson, Joseph Albo, and
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    60. MathTrek: Zeroing In On Catalan's Conjecture, Science News Online, Dec. 2, 2000
    Around 1320, levi ben gerson (1288–1344) proved that if powers of 2 and 3 areconsecutive, they must be 8 and 9 (see Medieval Harmony, January 23, 1999).
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    Zeroing In on Catalan's Conjecture
    Fermat's last theorem is just one of many examples of innocent-looking problems that can long stymie even the most astute mathematicians. It took about 350 years to prove Fermat's scribbled conjecture, for instance. Now, Preda Mihailescu of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich has proved a theorem that is likely to lead to a solution of Catalan's conjecture, another venerable problem involving relationships among whole numbers. He presents his result in a paper to be published in the Journal of Number Theory "This is a very important contribution," says mathematician Andrew Granville of the University of Georgia in Athens. Mihailescu's work probably puts the resolution of Catalan's conjecture into the foreseeable future, he notes. Named for Belgian mathematician Eugène Charles Catalan, the conjecture concerns powers of whole numbers. For example, the sequence of all squares and cubes of whole numbers begins with the integers 4, 8, 9, 16, 25, 27, and 36. In this sequence, 8 (the cube of 2) and 9 (the square of 3) are not only powers but also consecutive whole numbers. In 1844, Catalan asserted that, among all powers of whole numbers, the only pair of consecutive numbers that arises is 8 and 9. His conjecture amounts to a search for whole-number solutions to the equation

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