TITLE:
The Contribution of the Scholar and Biblical Commentator Abraham ibn Ezra in the Transfer of Advances in Mathematics from Islamic Spain to Christian Europe
AUTHORS:
Eran Raviv
KEYWORDS:
Sefer ha-Mispar, Abraham ibn Ezra, Abraham bar Hiyya ha-Nasi, Liber Abbaci, The Transfer of Mathematical Learning from Moslem Spain to Christian Europe
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.11 No.8,
August
22,
2023
ABSTRACT: In this paper we will present some of the mathematical achievements of
Abraham ibn Ezra, to which he was not given proper credit or credit of being
the first to introduce these mathematical concepts to Europe. As a result, we
will correct to a degree the history of mathematics. It is very possible that
Abraham ibn Ezra did not achieve general recognition for his work as his books
were written in Hebrew and never translated into Latin. However, he still
deserves recognition for this.