Roshdi Rashed

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Roshdi Hifni Rashed (born April 5, 1936 in Cairo ) is an Egyptian-French science and mathematics historian. He is particularly concerned with medieval Islamic mathematics .

Rashed is Professor Emeritus at Paris VII University and Research Director of the CNRS . Until 2001 he was director of the Center d´Histoire des Sciences et Philosophies Arabes et Médiévales in Paris and was founder in 1984 and until 1993 director of the scientific history research group REHSEIS (Recherches en Épistémologie et Histoire des Sciences et des Institutions Scientifiques) of the CNRS.

From 1994 to 1997 he was a professor at the University of Tokyo, where he also holds an honorary professorship. In 1984 he received a Doctor d´Etat from the University of Paris. In 1986 and 1993 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study .

In 1977 he received the CNRS bronze medal, the CNRS medal in 2001, the UNESCO Avicenna gold medal in 1999 and the Koyré medal of the Academie Internationale d´Histoire des Sciences in 1991 . In 2007 he received the König Faisal Prize (for Islamic Studies), in 1999 the Prize and Medal of the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science, and in 2017 the Kenneth O. May Prize . He is a member of the Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique and the Tunisian Academy Bayt al-Hikma . In 1989 he became a Knight of the Legion of Honor .

Fonts

  • as editor: Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science , 3 volumes, Routledge, London / New York 1996.
  • as publisher: Histoire des sciences arabes , 3 volumes, Paris: Seuil 1997
  • History of arabic sciences and mathematics , several volumes, Routledge, from 2011
  • as ed. with J. Jolivet: Études sur Avicenne. Paris 1984.
  • Entre Arithmétique et Algèbre. Recherches sur l'Histoire des Mathématiques Arabes , Paris: Belles Lettres 1984
    • English translation: The development of Arabic mathematics: between arithmetic and algebra , Kluwer 1994
  • D ' al-Khwarizmi à Descartes: étude sur l'histoire des mathématiques classiques , Paris: Hermann 2011
  • with Hélène Bellosta Ibrāhīm Ibn Sinān , logique et géométrie au Xe siècle , Leiden: Brill 2000
  • Optique et mathématiques: recherches sur l'histoire de la pensée scientifique en arabe , Aldershot: Variorum 1992
  • Géométrie et Dioptrique au Xe siècle: Ibn Sahl , al-Quhi et Ibn al-Haytham , Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 1993.
  • Les mathématiques infinitésimales du IXe au XIe siècle , 5 volumes, London, al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation, 1996–2006 (each with Arabic texts and the French translation)
    • Volume 1: Fondateurs et commentateurs: Ваnu Musá , Ibn Qurra, Ibn Sinân, al-Khâzin, al-Quhi, Ibn al-Samh, Ibn Hud, 1996
    • Volume 2: Ibn al-Haytham , 1993
    • Volume 3: Ibn al-Haytham: Théorie des coniques, constructions géométriques et géométrie pratique, 2000
    • Volume 4: Ibn Al-Haytham: Méthodes géométriques, transformations ponctuelles et philosophie des mathématiques, 2001
    • Volume 5: Ibn al-Haytham: Astronomie, géométrie sphérique et trigonométrie, 2006
  • with B. Vahabzadeh: al-Khayyam mathématicien , Paris: Librairie Blanchard, 1999 (English translation (without Arabic texts): Omar Khayyam. The Mathematician, New York 2000)
  • as editor: Thabit ibn Qurra : Science and Philosophy in Ninth-Century Baghdad , de Gruyter 2009
  • with Jean Jolivet: Oeuvres philosophiques et scientifiques d ' al-Kindī , Leiden: Brill, 2 volumes 1997
  • Apollonius de Perge: Coniques: texte grec et arabe , 7 volumes, de Gruyter 2008–2010
  • Diophant Les arithmétiques , Paris: Belles Lettres 1984 (Arabic / French) (the Arabic edition appeared in Cairo as early as 1975, L´art de l´algebre de Diophant )
  • with Christian Houzel : Les “Arithmétiques” de Diophante, Berlin: De Gruyter 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-033593-4 , doi : 10.1515 / 9783110336481 .
  • Sharaf al-Din al-Tusi , Œuvres mathématiques. Algèbre et Géométrie au XIIe siècle , Paris: Belles Lettres 1986
  • L'Optique et la Catoptrique d ' al-Kindī , Leiden: Brill 1997
  • Les Catoptriciens grecs. I: Les Miroirs ardents , Paris: Les Belles Lettres 2000
  • L'idée de l'algèbre selon Al-Khwarizmi , Fundamenta Scientiae, Volume 4, 1983, pp. 87-100

Together with Christian Houzel and Gilles Christol , he is also the editor and commentator of a new edition of the number theory work by Pierre de Fermat based on Paul Tannery 's edition (Paris: Blanchard 1999).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The 'Arabic Culture in Other Languages' Award Winner , accessed September 29, 2018
  2. ↑ Appreciation at the King Faisal International Award ( Memento from March 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Roshdi Rashed. In: academieroyale.be. Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique , accessed on December 9, 2019 (French).
  4. ↑ Contents
personal data
SURNAME Rashed, Roshdi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rashed, Roshdi Hifni (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian-French historian of science and mathematics
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Cairo