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AFRICAN MATHEMATICAL UNION
COMMISSION ON THE HISTORY OF
MATHEMATICS IN AFRICA
AMUCHMA- NEWSLETTER 34
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Chairman : Ezzaim LAABID (Morocco)
Co-Chair : Doumbia Salimata (Ivory Coast)
Secretary : Mogege Mosimege (South Africa)
Members :Anissa Harbili (Algeria), Jama Musse Jama (Italia/Somalia),
Adjamagbo Kossivi Pascal (France/Togo)
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Ecole Normale Supérieure, Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco, January 2019
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction ............................................................................................................................................. 3
1. Objectives of AMUCHMA .................................................................................................................... 4
2. Meetings .............................................................................................................................................. 4
2.1 Announcements ............................................................................................................................ 4
2.2 Report on the event ...................................................................................................................... 5
2.3 Report of the proceedings of a conference ................................................................................. 8
3. Publications ....................................................................................................................................... 10
3.1 Papers .......................................................................................................................................... 10
2.2 Books, chapters in books ............................................................................................................. 11
2.3 Symposium Proceedings ............................................................................................................. 13
4. Thesis and Masters ............................................................................................................................ 15
4.1 PhD thesis defended ................................................................................................................... 15
4.2 Memories of Masters defended .................................................................................................. 15
5. In Memoriam ..................................................................................................................................... 15
5.1 In memory of Youcef Guergour ................................................................................................... 15
5.2 In memory of Paulus Gerdes ....................................................................................................... 17
6. Various information ........................................................................................................................... 19
7 Suggestions ......................................................................................................................................... 19
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Introduction
Since its creation in 1986, the African Mathematical Union Commission on the History of
Mathematics in Africa (AMUCHMA) has become accustomed to publishing a newsletter, called the
AMUCHMA- Newsletter. This newsletter, as conceived by its founders, the late Paulus GERDES and
Professor Ahmed DJEBBAR, tries to record, on the one hand, information on all the activities of
history of mathematics taking place on the African Continent and of on the other hand, information on
all activities in the history of mathematics taking place outside the African continent but concerning
the African mathematical traditions. This tradition, which lasted almost a quarter of a century, has
stopped for more than a decade. The reasons for this break are many and varied and it is useless, in our
view, to analyze and expose here.
This issue 34, which is a continuation of this tradition, attempts to complete what has already
been reported in the previous 33 issues. It attempts to catalog and present activities and information
related to the history of mathematics in Africa during the last ten years. However, as the reader will
note, the information reported concerns basically the region of North Africa. The contacts we had with
colleagues from other parts of Africa could not produce results. We will spare no effort to fill this gap
in future issues of this newsletter.
The production of this issue is largely due to the information provided by several fellow
researchers, who are thanked here. The support of professor Ahmed DJEBBAR is invaluable since it
provides us spontaneously all the useful information that comes to hand for the implementation of this
newsletter. Also, the professors Mahdi ABDALJAOUAD, Abdelmalek BOUZARI and Driss
LAMRABET did not hesitate to feed this issue by the information which they had. Anissa HARBILI,
a member of AMUCHMA, also re-read the first draft of this issue and made the necessary corrections
and additions.
Marrakesh January 27th
2019
President of AMUCHMA
Ezzaim Laabid
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1. Objectives of AMUCHMA
The African Mathematical Union Commission on the History of Mathematics in Africa
(AMUCHMA), formed in 1986, has the following objectives:
1. to improve communication among those interested in the history of mathematics in
Africa;
2. to promote active cooperation between historians, mathematicians, archaeologists,
ethnographers, sociologists, etc., doing research in, or related to, the history of
mathematics in Africa;
3. to promote research in the history of mathematics in Africa, and the publication of its
results, in order to contribute to the demystification of the still-dominant Eurocentric
bias in the historiography of mathematics;
4. to cooperate with any and all organizations pursuing similar objectives.
The main activities of AMUCHMA are as follows:
1. Publication of a newsletter;
2. Setting up of a documentation centre;
3. Organisation of lectures on the history of mathematics at national, regional,
continental and international congresses and conferences.
2. Meetings
2.1 Announcements
The 13th
Maghrebian Symposium on the History of Arabic Mathematics (COMHISMA 13) will take place
on 30 -31 March and 1 April 2018 in Tunisia. COMHISMA 13 marks our desire to maintain the tradition
instituted over thirty years ago to learn about the progress of research on the history of Arabic
mathematics and to offer Maghreb scholars a space for meeting and confronting each other their work
with those of their foreign colleagues, including:
by reporting discoveries, editing and translation of manuscripts.
putting into proper place the contributions of the Muslim West in the construction of the
mathematical edifice.
exploring the links between mathematics and other areas of knowledge and, in particular,
their applications.
by analyzing the traditions of teaching mathematics in the Arab-Islamic civilization
Topics
A. Mathematics and Astronomy
B. Applied Mathematics
C. Teaching and circulation of Arabic mathematics.
D. Mathematics and society
E. Recreational Mathematics
Local Organizing Committee
Béchir Kachoukh (Honorary President); Mahdi Abdeljaouad - Faouzi Chaabane - Marouane
Ben Miled - Hmida Hedfi; Taoufik Charrada and Salma Elaoud (Tunisian Association of
Mathematical Sciences); Mounir Dhieb and Rahim Kouki (Tunisian Association of Didactics
of Mathematics); Makkia Dammak (Association of Tunisian Women Mathematicians); Saloua
Aouadi (Mediterranean Institute for Mathematical Sciences)
Contact: [email protected]
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2.2 Report on the event
a) The 20th
Inter-IREM Colloquium Epistemology and History of Mathematics, IREM of
Marseille, 24-25 May 2013, on the theme: Mediterranean Mathematics: from one bank to the
other.
The following papers focused on African mathematics:
1. ABDELJAOUAD Mahdi (Tunisia). "The introduction of French mathematics in Tunisia in the
nineteenth century".
2. AGERON Pierre ( IREM and Laboratoire LMNO, University of Caen). "The opening of
Morocco to European mathematics (19th century)"
3. BOUZARI Abdelmalek ( LEHM Laboratory, ENS Kouba, Algeria). "The constructions of the
conical sections of Apollonius in the Arab mathematical tradition: from theory to practice".
4. CROZET Pascal (CNRS, Laboratory SPHERE UMR 7219, Paris). "Inherited knowledge and
knowledge imported at the time of the expansion of European sciences: the example of Egypt
in the nineteenth century".
5. DJEBBAR Ahmed (University of Lille I). "What are the Arabic mathematical writings and
their contents that circulated in medieval Europe? An interim balance sheet »
6. LAABID Ezzaïm ( Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco). "Between the artificiality of problems
and the real role of mathematics: wills in Arab-Islamic mathematics"
b) The 11th
Maghrebian Symposium on the History of Arab Mathematics, Algiers
October 25-26, 2013
The opening session was conducted by Pr. Ahmed DJEBBAR (Algeria) and focused on the
following theme: Cutting techniques in two geometric works of al-Andalus: a comparative study.
Other conferences and talks are :
1. ABDELJAOUAD Mahdi (Tunisia): The discovery of al-Lubab fî sharh talkhis acmal al-hisab of al-
Huwari al-Masrati (conference)
2. AGERON Pierre (France): Moroccan scientists face European mathematics (1830-1912)
3. AISSANI Djamil (Algeria): Discovery in Algeria of a manuscript fragment of Ibn Muncim's Fiqh al-
hisab and a complete copy of al-Uqbani's Sharh al-Hûfî.
4. ASSALI Sidi Amar (Algeria): Contribution of al-Hassan al-Marrakushi (13th
century) in the Arab
geometry of the projections (in Arabic)
5. BEBBOUCHI Rachid (Algeria): On a manuscript by Adrar Bounaama in the pure tradition of the Fez
school tradition.
6. BRENTJES Sonja (Germany): The socio-cultural nature of Thabit b.Qurra's text on the Qarastun.
7. CALVO Emilia (Spain): The transmission of Arab astronomical tables to Latin: the case of the al-
Battani tables: al-Zij al-Sabic.
8. EL BOUAZZATI Bennacer (Morocco): The mathematization and the pre-modern cosmology
(conference).
9. GUERGOUR Youcef (Algeria): Overview of the mathematical production of Ibn Haydûr at-Tadili
(m.1413) from his al-Jâmic fi Usûl al-Hisâb (in Arabic)
10. HARBILI Anissa (Algeria): Circulation of certain computing techniques between the East and the
Muslim West (9th
-15th
centuries)
11. HOYRUP Jens (Denmark): Mucamalat and otherwise in the liber mahamaleth (conference)
12. KOUKI R, (Tunisia): The treatises and textbooks of mathematics in nineteenth-century Tunisia
13. LAABID Ezzaim (Morocco); A specific algorithm, derived from the Maghreb tradition of inheritance,
linked to the calculation of fractions: Shajarat dayn al-Ajnabî.
14. LAMRABET Driss (Morocco): The kitab al-misâha of Abu Zakariyya Yahya b. Abdellah Ibn Fitra (IVe
s.H / Xe s?)
15. LEBZA A. & Nouar A.: On the arithmology of Asma 'Allah al-Husna in the 16th chapter of Shams al-
Macarif by Ahmed al-Bunni
16. MOYON Marc (France): Ibn Liyûn at-Tujîbi: a new witness of the science of measurement in the
Muslim West.
17. MOSLIH Ahmed (Morocco): Irrational Numbers and Continuity among Mathematicians in the Muslim
West.
18. NACHID Halima (Morocco- Ivory Coast): Tahsîl al-Munâ fî sharh talkhis ibn al-Banna of al-Mawāhidi
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19. SHURBRING Gert (Germany): Beyond the Greek synthetic approach - the attempt to generalize
Euclid's theorems in Qutb al-din al-Shirazi's appendix to book I.
20. ZARROUKI Moqtadir (Algeria): Arithmetic and algebraic techniques in the calculation of inheritances
and wills in al-Qarafi (m.1285) (in Arabic)
21. ZEMOULI Moussa (Algeria): Al-Ijaza: the license to teach or practice in Arab schools: Presentation of
four manuscripts
c) The 12th
Maghrebian Symposium on the History of Arab Mathematics was held in
Marrakech from May 25 to May 28, 2016.
This meeting was attended by about forty researchers from a dozen countries. Twenty five
interventions, stirring the various themes of the conference, were presented at the symposium:
1. ABBASSI, Ahmed (Achour Zayyan University, Algeria): Mathematical contribution of al-
Hasan an-Nisabouri (m.1329) in the 14th century
2. ABDELJAOUD, Mahdi (University of Tunis, Tunisia): Discovery of an unknown 1850
Tunisian geometry textbook
3. AGERON, Pierre (University of Caen Normandy, France): The mathematical activities in
Marrakech in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
4. ASSALI, Sidi Amar (Ammar Tliji University, Algeria): As-Siraj fi cilm al-falak: dirasa fi
cilm
al-miqat cinda
cabd ar-Rahman al-Akhdari (16
th century)
5. BEBBOUCHI, Rachid & IGHIL AMEUR, Mounira (USTHB, Algeria): Decimal numbers:
epistemology and didactic obstacles
6. BEN MILED, Marouane (University of Tunis, Tunisia): Different meanings of the word
"adad" (number) in the algebraic tradition of al-Khawarizmı
7. CHEDDADI Abdelkhalek (EMI, Mohammed V University, Rabat): Methods and techniques
of calculation of the Moroccan muwaqqit according to al-cUmda of shaykh M'hammad ben
Muhammad al-cAlami (1373/1954)
8. CHRISTIANIDIS, Jean (University of Athens, Greece): Interpreting pre-modern algebra
through modern algebraic geometry: an historically faulty procedure.
9. DJEBBAR, Ahmed (University of Science and Technology, Lille, France): Mathematics and
Legal Practice: the example of "the epistle on measuring injury" of al-Jitali (13th century)
10. YOUNG, Gregg (The American University in Cairo, Egypt): The Philosopher's Euclid: Ibn
Sīnā's Epitome of Euclid's Elements
11. EL BOUAZZATI, Bennacer (Mohammed V University, Morocco): Mathematics in
Marrakech at the time of Ibn Rushd
12. EL IDRISSI, Abdallah (CFIE, Morocco) & ROUAN, Omar (Cadi Ayyad University,
Morocco): The notion of area in the proof in mathematics. Analysis of historical situations
13. HOYRUP, Jens (Roskilde University, Denmark): The Indian summer of al-Andalous
Mathematics? An expanded addendum
14. LAABID, Ezzaim (Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech): A little known aspect in the science
of inheritance: "qualitative" problems in Ibn Maycûn az-zahri (12
th-13
th centuries)
15. LAMRABET, Driss (Mohammed V University, Rabat): A re-reading of Ibn Simāk al-
Umawī's Raf 'al-ishkāl fī misāḥat al-ashkāl in the light of new data
16. MRABET, Slim (University of Tunis, Tunisia): The Evolution of Thales Theorem in History:
The Contribution of Arab Mathematicians
17. MOSLIH, Ahmed (Ibn Tofail University, Morocco): Algorithms and optimization methods
between Ibn al-Bannā and al-Qatrawānī.
18. NABLI, Hedi (King Faisal University, KSA): The conics and their applications in Arabic
mathematics.
19. NACHID, Halima (Nangui Abrogoua University, Abidjan, Ivory Coast): Al-Mawāhidī: Taḥṣīl
al-munā fī sharḥ talkhīṣ ibn al-Bannā '.
20. NOUAR, Ahmed (Skikda Univ., Algeria) & LEBZA Amal (Annaba Univ., Algeria): On the
magic squares in the 16th chapter of Ahmad al-Būnī's "Shams al-Macārif"
21. OAKS, Jeffrey (University of Indianapolis, USA): Arithmetical proofs in Arabic algebra
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22. RAZOUKI, A; Khzami, S, Selmaoui, S, Aggoram, B. ; Arfaoui, M. (Cadi Ayyad University,
Morocco): The history of Arab astronomy, for a training in scientific thought in harmony with
cultural identity.
23. SAHLI, Safia (ENS Kouba, Algeria): The Theory of Numbers in the Muslim West: Panorama
on Figurative Numbers.
24. SCHUBRING Gert (Bieilfeld University, Germany): Beyond the Greek Synthetic Approach -
The Essay of Generalizing Euclid's Theorems in Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi's Appendix to Book I
25. SCHWARTZ, Randy (Schoolcraft College, Livonia, Michigan, USA): Ibn al-Haytham
Extended: Spherical Optics in al-Mu'taman and Harriot
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2.3 Report of the proceedings of a conference
a) Proceedings of the 10th
Maghrebian Symposium on the History of Arab Mathematics
Table of contents
KACHOUKH Bechir. Tribute to professor
mohamed Souissi……………………………..1-5
ABDELJAOUAD Mahdi. Tribute to professor
Mercès Comès……………………………..…6
ABDELJAOUAD Mahdi. Seker zade(d.1787): le
lastet witness making a live use of maghrebian
symbols invented in 12th century………….7-32
ABROUGUI Hanène. Usûl al-handas of Umar
Ibn Baraket: the translation of a french textbouk
in Tunisia in 1875 ………………………. 33-60
BEN MILED Marouane. The Irrational
Euclidean in Ibn al-Haytham's "commentary on
the postulates of the Elements"…………...61-66
BJARNADOTTIR Kristin. Algorismus, an
Icelandic treatise on Hindu-Arabic arithmetic
……………………………………………..67-77
BOUZARI Abdelmalek. The theory of conical
sections in as-Sijzi: the epistle on the properties
of solids generated by parabola and
hyperbola…………………………………..78-85
DE YOUNG Greg. Diagramming numbers in
Euclid’s Elements ………………………..87-103
DJEBBAR Ahmed. The theory of ratios between
East and West Muslims: the example of al-
Mu'taman and ibn Sartaq………………..104-152
EL IDRISSI Abdallah. Trigonometry in al-
Birûni: the broken rope theorem………. 153-165
GUERGOUR Youcef. Analysis and synthesis in
the mathematical tradition through the Istikmal of
Ibn Hud………………………………… 166-186
Hoyrup Jens. A diluted al-Karagi in Abbacus
mathematics……………………….…… 187-197
LAABID Ezzaim. Ibn Safwân al-Mâlaqi
(m.1362) and his contribution to the
mathematical tradition of inheritance … 198-210
LEBZA Amel. Contribution of Ahmad al-Buni in
the history of magic squares…………… 211-217
MA Li. A comparative Study of a Chinese
method with its Arabic counterpart……..218-223
NABLI Hédi. Applications of Mathematics: Arab
Mathematics as an Example…………….224-233
OAKS Jeffrey A. Geometry and proof in Abû
Kamil’s algebra…………………………234-256
RAMIREZ MARTINÈZ Angel. History of
mathematics or history of humans doing
mathematics……………………………..257-269
SCHUBRING Gert. Recent research on the
history of mathematics education……….270-278
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b) Proceedings of the 11th
Maghrebian Symposium on the History of Arab Mathematics
Table of contents
BOUZARI.A et DJEBBAR . In Mémoriam ( Youcef Guergour)……………………………. 9-14
ABDELJAOUAD M et OAKS J . The discovery of al-Lubâb fî sharh talkhis acmâl
al-hisab d’al-Hawari al-Misrati………………………………………………………..………. 15-34 AGERON, P . Moroccan scholars face European mathematics: the paths of logarithm ………………. 35-60
AISSANI D, BEKLI M, MECHEHED D, CHADOU I. Discovery in Algeria of a manuscript
fragment of Ibn Muncim's Fiqh al-hisab and a complete copy of al-Uqbani's Sharh al-Hûfî … 61-72
ASSALI sidi Amar . Contribution of al-Hassan al-Marrakushi (13th century) in the Arab
geometry of the projections …………………………………………………………………… 73-98
BRENTJES Sonia. The socio-cultural nature of Thabit ibn Qurra’s Kitâb al- Qarastûn……... 99-108
DJEBBAR Ahmed. Cutting technics in a geometrical book of Andalus…………………..… 109-138
EL BOUAZZATI Bennacer. The mathematization and the pre-modern cosmology ……… 139-176
LAABID Ezzaim. A specific algorithm, derived from maghrebian tradition of inheritance,
linked to the calculation of fractions : Shajarat dayn al-ajnabî……………………………… 177-194
GUERGOUR Youcef. Overview of the mathematical production of d’Ibn haydûr
at-tâdili (m.1413)…………………………………………………………………………….. 195-196
HARBILI Anissa. Circulation of certain computing technics between the East and the
Muslim West (9th-15
th centuries)…… …………………………………………………….. 197-220
HOYRUP Jens. Mucâmalât and otherwise in the Liber mahameleth……………………… 221-248
LAMRABET Driss. The kitab al-misâha of Abu Zakariyya Yahya b. Abdellah Ibn
Fitra (IVe s.H / X
e s?) ………...…………………………………………………………... 249-276
LEBZA A & NAOUAR A. On the arithmology of Asma 'Allah al-Husna in the
16th chapter of Shams al-Macarif by Ahmed al-Bunni ………………………………… 277-302
MOSLIH Ahmed. Irrational Numbers and Continuity among Mathematicians in the
Muslim West……………..……………………………………………………………….. 303-332
MOYON Marc. Ibn Liyûn at-Tujîbi: a new witness of the science of measurement in
the Muslim West …………………………………………………………………………. 333-352
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3. Publications
3.1 Papers
1. ABDELJAOUAD, M. 2005: Ibn al-Yasamîn's Urjûza, l-Jabr wa l-muqâbala, Llull, vol. 28, No. 61,
pp. 181-194.
2. ABDELJAOUAD, M & Ageron P: Emergence of Euro-Islamic Mathematical Knowledge: The
Offering of the convert to revive the extinct flame, To appear in Philosophia scientiae.
3. BOUZARI, A. 2009: Conic in the Muslim West between the 11th and 14th centuries. Llull
(Zaragoza), vol. 32, pp. 59-72.
4. CALVO, E. 2004: Two Treatises on Mîqât from the Maghrib (14 th and 15th Centuries A.D.),
Suhayl, vol. 4, pp. 159-206.
5. CASURELLAS, J. 2007: Ibn 'Azzûz al-Qusantînî tables for computing planetary aspects, Suhayl, vol.
7, pp. 47-114.
6. DJEBBAR, A. 2005: Kamal Eddin Farsi, Physicist and Innovative Mathematician, Tarikh-elim,
Tehran, 2005, No. 3, pp. 9-38. Article reproduced in Discovery (Revue du Palais de la découverte),
Paris, No. 334 (January), pp. 14-32.
7. DJEBBAR, A. 2005: Mathematics and Philosophy in Islamic Countries, Quaterly Journal of Book
Review, New Series, Tehran, Vol. 3, Issue No. 1 (28), pp. 187-212.
8. DJEBBAR, A. 2006: Arab mathematics between theories and applications (8th-15
th centuries),
Matapli, no. 19-34.
9. DJEBBAR, A. 2006: Mathematische Gedichte, Spekrum der Wissenschaft, special issue 2, pp. 38-39.
10. DJEBBAR, A. 2007: From fun to serious: the example of arithmetic of the 9th-15
th centuries, The
News of Archimedes, Review of the University of Lille 1, No. 46 (October-December), pp. 22-23.
11. DJEBBAR, A. 2007: Arab mathematics: between their history and their teaching, Revue PLOT, First
quarter 2007, n ° 17, pp. 2-5.
12. DJEBBAR, A. 2007: Some aspects of the Arabic mathematical tradition (9th-15th centuries). In D.
Groux & S. Roelly (eds.): Mathematics: Sharing Knowledge, French Review of Comparative
Education, No. 2, Paris, L'Harmattan, pp. 13-30.
13. DJEBBAR, A. 2007: Some Aspects of Arab Mathematics, PLOT Review, First Quarter 2007, No. 17,
pp. 6-13.
14. DJEBBAR, A. 2008: Les Pràctiques combinatòries Al Magrib A l'època de Ramon Llull. In Institut
Européen de la Méditerranée (édit.) : Ramon Llull i l'Islam, L'inici del dialeg, Barcelone, La Magrana,
pp. 135-144.
15. DJEBBAR, A. 2010: Al-Mu'taman. In J. Lirola Delgado (dir. & Ed.): Biblioteca de al-Andalus,
Granada.
16. DJEBBAR, A. 2010: The circulation of knowledge in the Mediterranean: can we learn from the
Andalusian experience? Rayonnement du CNRS, n ° 55, pp. 8-13.
17. DJEBBAR, A. 2010: Mathematics and History: Elements of the past and considerations of the present,
Proceedings of the Colloquium "Can science do without its history? "(Nice, Research Center in
History of Ideas, April 15-16, 2009). In NOESIS Review, No. 17, pp. 153-173.
18. DJEBBAR, A. 2010: Science and intercultural relations in Andalus (9th-15th centuries), Historians &
Geographers No. 409, pp. 197-210.
19. DJEBBAR, A. 2013: The mathematical activities in Tlemcen in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries,
Proceedings of the international conference "711-2011: Thirteen centuries of shared history, trial
balance and future prospects" (Tlemcen, 17-19 October 2011). In Review "The Man and the Society",
n ° 6 (2013), Publications of the University of Tlemcen, pp. 171-187.
20. DJEBBAR, A. 2015: Mathematical Practices in the Maghreb After the Twelfth Century, Journal
L'Ingénieur, No. 289, October-November, pp. 10-13.
21. DJEBBAR, A. 2015: An Overview of Mathematical Activities in the Maghreb (9th-12
th), Journal of
Engineering, No. 288, May-June, pp. 10-13.
22. DJEBBAR, A. & Guergour, Y. 2013: The rūmī number in mathematical writings of al-Andalus and
Maghreb with the edition of an epistle of Ibn al-Bannâ, Suhayl (Barcelona), n ° 12, Arabic part, pp. 7-
52.
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23. DJEBBAR, A. & Vitrac, B. 2011: The Euclid Elements Book XIV: Greek and Arabic versions (first
part), Sciamus (Kyoto), no. 12, vol. 1, pp. 29-158.
24. DJEBBAR, A. & Vitrac, B. 2012: The Euclid Elements Book XIV: Greek and Arabic Versions (Part
Two), Sciamus (Kyoto), No. 13, Vol. 1, pp. 3-156.
25. GUERGOUR, Y. 2005: The King of Zaragoza Al-Mu'taman Ibn Hūd (1085) and the Pythagorean
Theorem, Its Sources and Extensions, Llull, vol. 28, No. 62, 2005, pp. 415-434.
26. GUERGOUR, Y. 2006: A glance at the mathematical contribution of some Maghrebian and
Andalusian scholars of the 8th-16
th centuries, Majallat Āfāq al-thaqāfa wa l-turāth [Journal of the
horizons of culture and heritage] (United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates), No. 55, pp. 149-163.
27. GUERGOUR, Y. 2006: Al-Mudkhal ilā ṣinācat al-handasa li Qusṭā Ibn lūqā al-baclabakkī
[Introduction to the Geometry Art of Qusṭā Ibn lūqā de Baalbek], Suhayl (Barcelona), vol. 6, pp. 7-79.
28. GUERGOUR, Y. 2009: The fifth postulate of parallels in Al-Mu'taman Ibn Hūd, King of Saragossa
(1081-1085), Llull 32, No. 69, pp. 59-72.
29. GUERGOUR, Y. 2009: Mabādi 'al-sālikīn fīī sharḥ rajz Ibn al-Yāsamīn li Ibn Qunfudh al-Qasanṭīnī,
riyyāḍī maghāribī min al-qarn al-thāmin al-hijri / al-rābic cashar al-mīlādī [The beginners' principles
on the commentary on the poem of Ibn Qunfudh al-Qasanṭīnī, Maghrebian mathematician of the 8th /
14th century], Majallat Āfāq al-thaqāfa wa l-turāth [Journal of the horizons of culture and heritage]
(United Arab Emirates United States, No. 67, pp. 163-194.
30. HARBILI, A. 2011: Methods of approximation in the mathematical works of the Muslim West, Llull
(Zaragoza), vol. 34, No. 73, pp. 39-60.
31. LEVY, T. 2003: Arabic algebra in Hebrew texts (I). An unpublished work by Isaac Ben Salomon al-
Ahdab (14th century), Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, vol; 13, pp. 269-301.
32. SAMSO, J. 2007: Andalusian Astronomy in 14th Century Fez, Al-Zij al-Muwafaq of Ibn 'Azzûz al-
Qusantînî. Aldershot, Variorum, IX
2.2 Books, chapters in books
a) Books
1. DJEBBAR, A. & MOYON, M. 2011. The Arab Sciences in Africa, Mathematics and Astronomy
(9th to the 19
th century), followed by Nubdha al-'Ilm al-hisâb of Ahmad Baabir al-Arawani. Paris,
Editions Grandvaux-Vecmas; Algiers, Editions Apic Editions, 2012.
2. LAMRABET, D, 2006: Ibn Muncim, Fiqh al-hisab [The science of calculation], Rabat, Dar al-
Aman.
3. LAMRABET, D, 2014: Introduction to the history of Maghrebian mathematics, second revised
and expanded edition, published by Lulu; address: http://www.lulu.com/shop
/http://www.lulu.com/shop/driss-lamrabet/introduction-%C3% A0-lhistoire-des-
math%C3%A9matiques maghr%C3%A9bines/ paperback/ product-21551140.html
b) Chapters in books
1. ABALLAGH, M. 2007: What is the nature of mathematics developed by Maghrebian
mathematicians of the 13th-14th centuries?, In Sciences and Muslim Societies: Historical
Comparisons and Perspectives, Casablanca, King Abd al-'Azîz Foundation, pp. 47-66.
2. ABDELJAOUD, M, 2012: The Mathematical Symbols Specific to the Muslim West, in The
Golden Age of Science in Islamic Countries, Scientific Manuscripts in the Maghreb, Aissani, D &
Djehiche M (edits.), published by the Ministry of Culture, Aglérie, 2012; pp.25-32.
3. ABDELJAOUAD, M, 2013: The importance of Bézout's textbooks in the transfer of European
mathematics in Turkey and Egypt in the nineteenth century, in The mathematical works in history:
Between research, education and culture, Barbin, E & Moyon, M (edicts.), Limoges; pp. 149-160.
4. ABDELJAOUAD, M, 2014: Mathematics Education in Islamic Countries in the Modern Time.
Case Study of Tunisia. In Handbook on the History of Mathematics Education, Karp, A &
Schubring G (edits.), New York: Springer, pp. 405-430.
5. ABDELJAOUAD, M, 2015: The introduction of European mathematics in Tunisia in the
nineteenth century, in Mediterranean mathematics: on the one side and the other, E. Barbin & J.-
L. Maltret (ed.), publication of IREM, France, Ellipses Marketing Edition, Paris, 2015, pp.235-246
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6. AGERON, P, 2015: European mathematical works in nineteenth-century Morocco, in
Mediterranean mathematics: from one side to the other, E. Barbin & J.-L. Maltret (ed.),
Publication of IREM, France, Ellipses Marketing Edition, Paris, 2015, pp.247-265
7. ASSALI, S. 2012: The geometry of the projections in the "Book on how to project the sphere on
the plane of the astrolabe" of al-Saghânî: contribution to the study of the mathematical tools of the
Arab astronomy , Setif, Ferhat Abbas University.
8. BOUZARI, A, 2015: The conical sections of Apollonius in the Arab mathematical tradition: an
example of circulation, in Mediterranean mathematics: from one side to the other, E. Barbin & J.-
L. Maltret (édit.), publication of IREM, France, Ellipses Marketing Edition, Paris, 2015, pp.43-55.
9. CAIANILLO, E, CIFOLETI, G & AISSANI, D: Algebra in the Maghreb and its development in
Europe, in The golden age of science in Islamic countries, scientific manuscripts in the Maghreb,
Aissani, D & Djehiche M (edits.), published by the Ministry of Culture, Aglérie, 2012; pp.33-46
10. CROZET, P, 2015: "Inherited knowledge and knowledge imported at the time of the expansion of
European science: the example of Egypt in the nineteenth century", in Mediterranean
mathematics: from one side and the other other, E. Barbin & J.-L. Maltret (ed.), publication of
IREM, France, Ellipses Marketing Edition, Paris, 2015, pp.
11. DJEBBAR, A. 2006: The role of Arab mathematics in the birth of a European scientific tradition,
Proceedings of the Colloquium on "Arab Culture and European Culture" (Nantes, 14-15 December
2000). In M. Pondevie Roumane, F. Clement & J. Tolan (ed.): Arab culture and European culture.
The unknown turban in the family album, Paris, L'Harmattan, pp. 91-115.
12. DJEBBAR, A. 2007: Geometry of measurement and cutting in the mathematics of Al-Andalus
(10th-13
th centuries). In P. Radelet de Grave (ed.): Liber Amicorum Jean Dhombres, Turnhout,
Editions Brepols, pp. 113-147.
13. DJEBBAR, A. 2007: una panorama della matematica araba. In C. Bartocci & P. Odifreddi (ed.):
La Matematica: I luoghi e i tempi, Turin, Einaudi, pp. 177-208.
14. DJEBBAR, A. 2008: Some remarks on the definitions of the Euclid Elements Book XI in the Arab
tradition. In JW Dauben, S. Kirschner, A. Kühne, P. Kunitzsch & R. Lorch (eds.): Mathematics
Celestial and Terrestrial, Festchrift für Menso Folkerts zum 65. Geburststag, Halle (Saale),
Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, pp . 361-377.
15. DJEBBAR, A. 2013: Islamic Combinatorics. In R. Wilson & J.-J. Watkins (eds.): Combinatorics,
Ancient and Modern, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 82-107.
16. DJEBBAR, A. 2014: Mathematics in the Muslim West (9th-18
th century): Panorama of the work
carried out between 1999 and 2011. In N. Sidoli and G. Van Brummelen (ed.): From Alexandria
through Baghdad, Surveys and Studies in Ancient Greek and Medieval Islamic Mathematical
Sciences in Honor of JL Berggren, New York, Springer, pp. 275-296.
17. DJEBBAR, A. 2015: What are the Arabic mathematical writings and their contents that circulated
in medieval Europe? An interim balance sheet; in Mediterranean Mathematics: from one side and
the other, E. Barbin & J.-L. Maltret (ed.), publication of IREM, France, Ellipses Marketing
Edition, Paris, 2015, pp. 89-108.
18. LAABID, E. 2007: Ibn Khaldûn and the cilm al-fara'id, in The intellectual structures in the Muslim
west at the time of Ibn Khaldûn, El-Bouazzati, B (edict); publications of the Faculty of Arts and
Humanities, Rabat, Symposiums and Seminars No. 140, pp.15-26
19. LAABID, E, 2008: Some Aspects of Mathematical Communication in the Arab-Islamic
Civilization, in Science and Education Institutions within the Islamic Civilization, El-Bouazzati, B
(edict); publication of the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences Rabat, Seminars and Seminars
Series No. 150, pp.11-18.
20. LAABID, E, 2012: Between Religion and Algebra: The Problems of Wills in Arab-Islamic
Mathematics, in Philosophy and Science in the Muslim West; Borkane, T (edict), publication of
the Philosophy and Heritage Laboratory in the Knowledge Society, Faculty of Arts and
Humanities, Marrakech, 2012, pp.22-51.
21. LAABID, E, 2012: Some mathematical aspects of the inheritance tradition in medieval Maghreb,
in The golden age of science in Islamic countries, the scientific manuscripts in the Maghreb,
Aissani, D & Djehiche M (edits. ), published by the Ministry of Culture, Algeria, 2012; pp.53-59
22. LAABID, E, 2015, Wills in Arab-Islamic Mathematics: Between the Artificiality of Problems and
the Real Role of Mathematics, in Mediterranean Mathematics: From one side to the Other, E.
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Barbin & J Maltret (ed.), Publication of IREM, France, Ellipses Marketing Edition, Paris, 2015;
pp.108-124
23. LAMRABET, D. 2007: Mathematical Writings in circulation in the Maghreb at the time of Ibn
Khaldûn (732-808H / 1332-1406), in Intellectual structures in the Muslim West at the time of Ibn
Khaldûn, El Bouazzati, B (edict); publications of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Rabat,
Symposia and Seminars No. 140, pp. 27-57. 24. LAMRABET, D. 2008: Various Notes on the Teaching of Mathematics in Morocco under the
Almohads (542-668h / 1147-1269) and the Merinids (668-870h / 1269-1465), in The Institutions
of Science and teaching in the Islamic civilization, El-Bouazzati, B (edict); publication of the
Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences Rabat, colloquium and seminar series No. 150; pp. 19-48. 25. LAMRABET, D, 2013: "Examples of Demonstrations in Arab-Muslim Mathematics". In The
Mechanisms of Argumentation in Medieval Islamic Thought. Published by the Center for Studies
and Human and Social Research Oujda (CERHSO); coordination: Said El Bousklaoui and Taoufik
Faizi. 26. SESIANO, J, 2012: The magic squares in the Maghreb manuscripts, in The golden age of science
in Islamic countries, the scientific manuscripts in the Maghreb, Aissani, D & Djehiche M (edits.),
Published by the Ministry of Culture, Aglérie, 2012, pp.91-98
2.3 Symposium Proceedings
1. ABDELJAOUAD, M. 2005: The Mathematical Manuscript of Jerba: A Practice of Maghrebian
Algebraic Symbols in Full Maturity, Proceedings of the 7th Maghrebian Symposium on the
History of Arab Mathematics (Marrakech, May 30-June 1, 2002), Marrakech, al -Wataniya, vol. 2,
pp. 9-98.
2. ABDELJAOUAD, M. 2005: The Eight Hundredth Anniversary of the Death of Ibn al-Yasami:
Bilaterality as part of his thinking and practice, Proceedings of the 8th Maghrebian Symposium on
the History of Arab Mathematics (Tunis, 18-20 December 2004) ), Tunis, ATSM Publications, pp.
1-30.
3. ABDELJAOUAD, M. 2011: The circulation of Maghrebian mathematical symbols between the
West and East Muslims, Proceedings of the 9th Maghrebian Symposium on the History of Arab
Mathematics (Tipaza, May 12-14, 2007), Algiers, Fascinated Printing Press , pp. 7-35.
4. ABDELJAOUAD, M. 2011: Seker-Zade (1787): The latest witness making a living use of
Maghreb mathematical symbols invented in the 12th century, Proceedings of the 10th Maghreb
Symposium on the History of Arab Mathematics (Tunis, May 29-31, 2010), Tunis, ATSM
Publication, pp. 7-32.
5. ABDELJAOUAD, M & Oaks, J, 2016: "From the discovery of al-Lubab fi sharh 'acmal al-hisab
of al-Hawari al-Misrati", in Proceedings of the Eleventh Maghrebian Symposium on the History
of Mathematics Arabs Algiers, 29-30-31 May 2013, pp.15-34.
6. ABDELJAOUAD, M .: The manuscripts of Sharh musadarat kitab Uqlidis of Ibn al-Haytham at
the National Library of Tunis, in Proceedings of the International Symposium "Maghrebi
Mathematics in the Arab World", Constantine, April 19-20, 2015 .
7. BOUZARI, A. 2005: The conics of Istikmâl of al Mu'taman (m.1085) in the writing of Ibn Sartâq
(14th
century), Proceedings of the 8th Colloquium on the History of Arabic Mathematics ( Tunis,
20-23 December 2004), Tunis, Tunisian Association of Mathematical Sciences (ed.), pp. 83-92.
8. DJEBBAR, A. 2005: Mathematics in the Imperial Maghreb (12th-13
th centuries), Proceedings of
the 7th Maghrebian Symposium on the History of Arab Mathematics (Marrakech, 30 May-2 June
2002), Marrakech, ENS-al -Wataniya, pp. 97-132.
9. DJEBBAR, A. 2006: The Mathematical Traditions of Al-Andalus and the Maghreb in the East:
The Example of Ibn al-Majdî, Proceedings of the 8th Maghrebian Symposium on the History of
Arab Mathematics (Tunis, 18-20 December 2004), Tunis, ATSM, Graphimed, pp. 155-184.
10. DJEBBAR, A. 2009: Art, Culture and Mathematics in Islamic Countries (9th-15
th centuries),
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group
(Sherbrooke, May 23-27, 2008), Burnaby , BC, pp. 3-19.
In: http: //publish.edu.uwo.ca/cmesg/pdf/CMESG2008.pdf, March 3, 2009.
11. DJEBBAR, A. 2011: The theory of ratios between East and West Muslims: The example of al-
Mu'taman and Ibn Sartâq, Proceedings of the 10th Maghreb Symposium on the History of Arab
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Mathematics (Tunis, 29 -31 May 2010), Tunis, Publications of the A. T. S. M., pp. 104-152.
12. DJEBBAR, A. 2011: Mathematics in Islamic Countries: Legacies, Innovations and Circulation in
Europe, Proceedings of the 18th Inter-IREM Symposium "History and Epistemology of
Mathematics" (Caen, May 28-29, 2010), Caen , IREM of Lower Normandy, pp. 3-27.
13. DJEBBAR, A. 2011: Practical Geometrie and learned Geometry in the Maghreb: The Example of
Ibn Haydûr, Proceedings of the 9th Maghrebian Symposium on the History of Arab Mathematics
(Tipaza, May 12-14, 2007), Algiers, Fascinated Printing Press , pp. 53-79.
14. DJEBBAR, A. 2014: The exact sciences in the Mediterranean during the century surrounding the
Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa (1150-1250), Proceedings of the International Colloquium "Las
Navas de Tolosa 1212-2012, Miradas Cruzadas" (Jaen , 9-12 April 2012), P. Cressier & V.
Salvatiera (ed.), Jaen, Universidad de Jaen, 2014, pp. 291-299.
15. DJEBBAR, A. 2016: Cutting techniques in a geometric work of al-Andalus. In A. Bouzari (ed.),
Proceedings of the XIth Maghrebian Symposium on the History of Arab Mathematics (Algiers,
26-28 October 2013), Algiers, Dar al-Khalduniya, pp. 109-138.
16. DJEBBAR, A. 2016: The circulation of Arabic algebra in Europe and its impact; in Proceedings of
the International Symposium on "The Impact of Arabic Sources in Europe and Asia" (Erlangen,
January 21-23, 2014). In Micrologus XXIV, Florence, Sismel-Edizioni Galuzzo, pp. 95-119.
17. DJEBBAR, A. 2016: The first mathematical societies in the Maghreb. Proceedings of the
International Symposium on "The Institutionalization of Mathematics and the Founding of
National Societies", 24th International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine
(Manchester, 25-28 July 2013). In press.
18. GUERGOUR, Y. 2009: The mathematical and astronomical works of Ibn al-Qunfudh al-Qasantini
(810/1407), Acts of the "Spring of Cirta" (Constantine, 25-26 April 2009), Constantine,
Publications from Mentouri University, 18.
19. GUERGOUR, Y. 2011: Analysis and synthesis in the Arab mathematical tradition through the
Istikmāl of al-Mu'taman Ibn Hūd (m.1085), Proceedings of the 10th Maghrebian symposium on
the history of mathematics Arabs (Tunis, May 29-June 1, 2010), Tunis, ATSM Publications, pp.
166-186.
20. HARBILI, A. 2005: Some methods of approximation in Maghrebian mathematical writings of the
12th-14th centuries, Proceedings of the 7th Maghrebian Colloquium on the History of Arab
Mathematics (Marrakech, May 30-June 1, 2002). Marrakesh, E., S., vol. 1, pp. 157-200.
https://iris.univ-lille1.fr/dspace/bitstream/1908/1238/1/50376-2008-Bouzari.pdf.
21. HARBILI, A. 2006: The Takhlis of al-Ghurbi, an unpublished commentary on Ibn al-Banna's
Talkhis, Proceedings of the 8th Maghrebian Symposium on the History of Arab Mathematics
(Tunis, 18-20 December 2004). Tunis, Publications of the A.T.S.M., pp. 199-216.
22. LAABID, E. 2005: Problems of inheritance and mathematics in the Maghreb of the 12th-14th
centuries: an attempt at synthesis, in Proceedings of the 7th Maghrebin Colloquium on the History
of Arab Mathematics, Marrakech, Editions ENS-al-Wataniya, vol. 1, pp. 241-261.
23. LAABID, E. 2006: The Hisab ad-dawr in the Arabic Mathematical Tradition, Proceedings of the
8th Maghrebian Symposium on the History of Arab Mathematics (Tunis, 18-20 December 2004),
Tunisian Association of Mathematical Sciences, pp. 233-246.
24. LAABID, E, 2009: Mathematics in the field of inheritance in Islam’s countries, presentation in the
"spring of Cirta: mathematical and philosophical hatching" organized by the University of
Constantine on April 25-26, 2009.
25. LAABID, E, 2011: Ibn Safwan al-Malaqi (m.1362) and his contribution in the mathematical
tradition of inheritance, in Proceedings of the 10th Maghrebian Symposium on the History of Arab
Mathematics, Tunis 2010, publication of the Association Tunisian of Mathematical Sciences,
pp.198-210
26. LAABID, E, 2016, A specific algorithm, derived from the Maghreb tradition of inheritance,
related to the calculation on fractions: shajarat dayn al-ajnabi, in Proceedings of the 11th
Maghrebian symposium on the history of Arab mathematics, Algiers 2013, publication of ENS
Kouba, Algeria, pp.177-194
27. LAMRABET, D, 2013: The Kitāb al-misāḥa of Abū Zakariyā Yaḥyā ben 'Abd Allāh Ibn Fiṭra (4th
century H / 10th century?). The 11
th Maghrebian Symposium on the History of Arab Mathematics,
Algiers, October 2013
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28. LAMRABET, D, 2015: Al-Tamhīd wa al-taysīr fī qawā'id al-taksīr of Yaīsh b. Ibrāhīm al-Umawī
(late 14th century). Symposium of Constantine, 2015
29. LAMRABET, D, 2015: A Brief Introduction of Tashīl al-maṭālib fī tacdīl al-kawākib from Ibn
Qunfudh al-Qusanṭīnī (m.810H / 1407). Symposium of Constantine, 2015
4. Thesis and Masters
4.1 PhD thesis defended
1. ABALLAGH, M. 2007: Philosophy and History of Mathematics in the Muslim West: Essay of
Synthesis, PhD Thesis, University Mohamed V, Rabat.
2. BOUZARI, A. 2008: The geometry of the conics in the tradition of the Muslim West through
the al-Mu'taman Kitab al-Istikmal [Book of achievement] (1085), Ph.D. history of
mathematics, University of Lille 1.
3. GUERGOUR, Y. 2006: Euclidean geometry in the Muslim West through Kitab al-Istikmal of
al-Mu'taman (11th century), Doctorate in the history of mathematics, University of Annaba,
Faculty of Mathematics.
4. HARBILI, A. 2012: Methods of approximation in the mathematical writings of Maghreb and
al-Andalus (10th-15th centuries): contribution to the study of the mathematical tradition of the
Muslim West, Thesis of doctorate, Annaba, Badji Mokhtar University.
5. LAABID, E. 2006: Technical Mathematic in Solving Problems of inheritance in Medieval
Maghreb Through the Mukhtasar of Al-Hufi (1192), Sources and Extensions. PhD Thesis,
Faculty of Education Sciences; Mohamed V University Souissi, Rabat.
6. MOSLIH, A. 2006: The work of Ibn Haydûr (14th century) "The finery of the students and the
wish of the calculators on the explanation of the difficulties of Lever of the veil", Thesis of
Doctorate, Rabat, Mohamed University V.
7. MOYON, M. 2008: Practical geometry in Europe in relation to the Arab tradition, the example
of measurement and division: Contribution to the study of medieval mathematics, Thesis of
doctorate in the history of mathematics, Lille, University Science and Technology of Lille.
8. NEGHESH, I. 2007: The work of Ibn Haydûr (14th century) "The careful examination of the
commentary to the Talkhîs", Thesis of Doctorate, Rabat, Faculty of Letters and Human
Sciences.
9. WARTENBERG, I. 2007: The Epistle of the Number by Isaac ben Solomon ben al-Ahdab
(Sicily, 14th century), An Episode of Hebrew Algebra, Thesis of Doctorate of Philosophy,
Paris, University Paris VII
4.2 Memories of Masters defended
1. ABASSI, A. 2010: The calculation of the nth root of a number in al-Hasan al-Nîshâbûrî (14th
century), Memory of Magister, Algiers, E.N.S.
2. AZEDDINE, F. 2013: The measurement of the circle in the Arab mathematical tradition:
From Banû Mûsâ to Nasîr al-Dîn al-Tûsî, Memory of Magister, Algiers, E.N.S.
3. KOUACHI, A, 2015: Study of Archimedean plane geometry in the Arabic mathematical
tradition through the epistle "Usûl al handassa" attributed to Archimedes, memory of
Magisterium in the history of mathematics, ENS Kouba, Algiers, Algeria
4. TAÏBI, N. 2015: Mathematics and society in the Maghreb: the example of Tanbīh al-albāb by
Ibn al-Bannā ', Memory of Magister, Algiers, E.N.S., 2015.
5. In Memoriam
5.1 In memory of Youcef Guergour
Youcef GUERGOUR was born around 1955, at the very beginning of the Algerian revolution.
Tamaloust, his native village, is a village in eastern Algeria, the territory of the small town is
especially famous for its many archaeological remains that testify to a human presence since
prehistoric times since no less than twenty dolmens have been listed.
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Youcef GUERGOUR comes from a modest family. At the age of 10 years, he enrolled in a school
reserved for orphans at the school year 1965-66. After high school, he entered the University of
Constantine and the University of Algiers where he obtained a degree in mathematics and a diploma of
higher education (D.E.S.) in partial differential equations. This allows him to be recruited as a contract
assistant at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Kouba (Algiers). In 1985, under the direction of
Professors C. Bouamrane and A. Djebbar, he began the preparation of a Magister of History of
Science on the mathematical work of Ibn Qunfudh (1407). After obtaining this Magister, he is
engaged in the preparation, under the direction of A. Djebbar, of a Doctorate on the theme of
"Euclidean geometry in al-Mu'taman Ibn Hûd (478 m. / 1085): Contribution to the study of the Arab
geometrical tradition in Andalus and Maghreb ". He defended his thesis in 2006 at the University of
Annaba, before an international jury composed, in particular, of Professors S. Chalhoub (Aleppo), J.
Sesiano (Lausanne) and B. Vitrac (Paris).
From this date, he embarked on a research activity in the history of mathematics, while pursuing
his teaching in this discipline and taking administrative responsibilities, in particular that of Head of
the mathematics department of the ENS, during eight years. He is also involved, along with his other
recent graduates in the history of mathematics, in the training and mentoring of young students who
have chosen this course.
Throughout this period, he is one of the animators, and the oldest, activities of history of
mathematics at the ENS, taking charge of the secretariat of the "Algerian Association of History of
Mathematics" (since its creation at the end of the 1980s), participating in the realization of the
newsletter of the Association, entitled "Cahier du seminaire Ibn al-Haytham" and organizing, with his
colleagues, a national symposium (5-7 April 1993) and four international symposia (1st, 3rd, 6th and
9th Maghreb symposium on the history of Arab mathematics).
PUBLICATIONS
- A Maghreb mathematician, Ibn Qunfudh al-Qasanṭīnī (740-809 / 1339-1406), Proceedings of the
first Maghrebian symposium on the history of Arab mathematics (Algiers, 1-3 December 1986),
Algiers, House of Books, 1988 , pp. 179-190.
- The mathematical writings of Ibn Qunfudh (1339-1409), Memory of Magister, Algiers, E.N.S.,
1990. (In Arabic).
- The mathematical work of Ibn Qunfudh and his links with some writings of his contemporaries,
Proceedings of the 1st National Symposium on the History of Arab Mathematics (Ghardaia, 5-7
April 1993), Office of University Publications, 1996, pp. 39-70. (In Arabic).
- Ibn Qunfudh. In H. Selin (eds.): Encyclopedia of the History of Science, Technology and
Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997, pp. 428-429
- Comparative study of the second and third species of Kitāb al-Istikmāl Ibn Hūd, Proceedings of
the Fifth Maghrebian Symposium on the History of Arab Mathematics (Hammamet, 1-3
December 1994), Tunis, A.T.S.M., 1998, pp. 31-46. (In Arabic).
-The content of the epistle on the
introduction to the geometry of Qusā Ibn
Lūqā, Proceedings of the 3rd Maghrebian
Symposium on the History of Arab
Mathematics (Algiers, 1-3 December 1990),
Algiers, Office of University Publications,
1998, pp. 65-71. (In Arabic).
- Various Numeration Systems in the
Maghreb in the Ottoman Period: The
Example of Numbers rūmī In Ihsanoğlu, E.
Günergun, F., Djebbar, A. (edit.): Science,
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Technology and Industry in the Ottoman Word, Turnhout , Brepols, vol. VI, 2000, pp. 67-74.
- The phenomenon of "mathematical commentaries" in the fourteenth century in the Muslim West,
Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on the History of Arab Sciences (Ra's al-
Khaimah, December 16-19, 1996), Aleppo, Publications of the University of Aleppo , 2003, pp.
405-424. (In Arabic).
- King of Zaragoza Al-Mu'taman Ibn Hūd (1085) and the Pythagorean Theorem, its sources and
extensions, Llull, vol. 28, No. 62, 2005, pp. 415-434.
- Some aspects of the mathematical contribution of Maghreb and Andalusian scholars of the 8th-
16th centuries, Majallat Āfāq al-thaqāfa wa l-turāth, no. 55 (2006), pp. 149-163. (In Arabic).
- Al-Mu'taman Ibn Hûd (1085) and the Pythagorean Theorem its sources and its extensions,
Proceedings of the 8th Maghrebian symposium on the history of Arab mathematics (Tunis, 18-20
December 2004), Tunis, ATSM, Tunis, 2006, pp. 185-197.
- Euclidean geometry in al-Mu'taman Ibn Hūd (478/1085), Contribution to the study of the Arab
geometrical tradition in Andalus and the Maghreb, PhD thesis. Annaba, Badji Mokhtar
University, 2006. 543 pp.
- "Introduction to the Art of Geometry" by Qustā Ibn Lūqā (910), Revue Suhayl (Barcelona), vol. 6
(2006), Arabic part, pp. 7-79.
- "Beginners' Principles on Commentary to Ibn al-Yasamīn's Poem" by Ibn Qunfudh, a
Maghrebian mathematician of the 14th century, Majallat Āfāq al-thaqāfa wa l-turāth, no. 67
(2009), p. 163-194. (In Arabic).
- The fifth postulate of parallels in Al-Mu'taman Ibn Hūd, King of Saragossa (1081-1085), Llull
32, No. 69 (2009), pp. 59-72.
- The mathematical and astronomical works of Ibn al-Qunfudh al-Qasantini (810/1407), Proceedings of the
"Spring of Cirta" (Constantine, 25-26 April 2009), Constantine, Publications of the Mentouri University,
2009,18 pp.http://www.umc.edu.dz/vf/proceeding/PrintempsCirta/pdf/Guergour.pdf (16 novembre
2013).
- Analysis and synthesis in the Arab mathematical tradition through the Istikmal of al-Mu'taman
Ibn Hūd (m.1085), Proceedings of the 10th Maghrebian symposium on the history of Arab
mathematics (Tunis, 29 May-1 June 2010), Tunis, ATSM Publications, 2011, pp. 166-186.
- The rūmī numeration in mathematical writings of al-Andalus and Maghreb with the edition of an
epistle of Ibn al-Bannā, Revue Suhayl (Barcelona), n ° 12 (2013), Arab part, pp. 7-52. (In
collaboration with A. Djebbar.
(According to A. BOUZARI & A.DJEBBAR, Proceedings 9th COMHISMA,pp.9-14)
5.2 In memory of Paulus Gerdes
The world was saddened by the death of Paulus Pierre Joseph Gerdes on November 11, the day
he reached 62 years of life. In a broad sense, the world is deprived of a great educator, a thinker and an
interesting and rigorous researcher, and a great friend for those who had the opportunity to meet him
and to be with him.
Our condolences to the family and to his disciples, colleagues and friends. My relationship with
Paulus was very special. I met Paulus in the mid-1970s, a young man of just over 20 years old. He was
one of the first adherents to the ethnomathematic movement, which was beginning; He has become a
leader in the region. His life trajectory was very special. He was born in the Netherlands, in a traditional family. His father was
the equivalent of a minister of state for religious cults. Paulus studied at the University of Nijmegen where he
obtained a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Physics in 1972. He did an experience in humanitarian mission
in Vietnam, returned to Nijmegen, did a BA in Cultural Anthropology in 1974 and completed in 1975 A Master
in Mathematics.
Also in the Netherlands, he became a professor at Centro do Terceiro Mundo, with links to liberation
movements and anti-apartheid in southern Africa. In late 1976, he went to Mozambique, becoming a
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Mozambican citizen and creating a family. Since his arrival, he has been a professor at Eduardo Mondlane
University until 1989, when he was transferred to the Pedagogical
University, staying there until the end of his life. n 1986, he
completed a Ph.D. at the University of Dresden, Germany, with a
thesis on O Despertar do Pensamento Geométrico and in 1996
he returned for a second PhD with a thesis on Geometria Sona:
Reflections on the traditions of drawing in the sand between the
peoples of South Africa from Ecuador, at the University of
Wuppertal, Germany.
As an academic, Paulus has been responsible for many
contributions to the theorization of craftsmanship and the
formulation and solution of the mathematical questions of the
imaginary and folk crafts. All of his contributions have important
implications for pedagogy with strong socio-cultural roots. All his
contributions have important implications for pedagogy with
strong socio- cultural roots.
Paulus was one of the most important ethnomathematics researchers, always trying to analyze the historical
and epistemological foundations of mathematics and to propose important pedagogical innovations. He managed
to organize a very active group of young researchers, bringing together mathematicians and educators. The
group's publications, mainly in Portuguese and English, are an important resource for those interested in
ethnomathematics research around the world. Many of these publications are generously available to all
interested parties, free or at low cost, on the publisher's website "Lulu.com" where Paulus has published almost
all of his books.
In addition to academic research activities, Paulus has always been involved in education, especially the
teaching of mathematics. The way it combines research and education is exemplary. In Maputo, in 1989, he
founded the Centro de Pesquisas in Etnomatemática - Cultura, Matemática e Educação and, thanks to his
innovative proposals, he managed to attract Mozambican academics from all over the world interested in his
research projects.
As a historian, Paulus Gerdes has contributed significantly to the understanding of the history of
mathematical ideas, theories and practices on the African continent. His concern was to organize the historical
context of practices and theories existing in various African cultures. Its main objective was extensive
bibliographic research on the history of mathematics in Africa. The results of his research have been crucial for
mathematical historians around the world.
His concerns go beyond identifying other models of mathematical thinking. He felt that creativity could be
improved if cultural dignity was restored. The post-apartheid period in South Africa has had many repercussions
throughout the African continent. It represents a new and important space for the development of the creative
potential of indigenous peoples. Ethnomathematics has proven to be an important strategy for the revival of
African creativity and Paulus Gerdes has always been extremely skilled in channeling this potential to form a
large generation of researchers in mathematics education.
He was responsible for a change of attitude with regard to craftsmanship and folklore.
Craftsmanship has been considered of minor importance in the world of science and mathematics, and
its use in education has been neglected. Paulus found, from his research with artisans, the fundamental
importance of crafts as a basis for the historical development of mathematics. The main primary
sources of his research were artisanal practices. Research on these practices reveals the theoretical
foundation of Paulus' work. Paulus Gerdes recognized that the culture of people, artists, artisans is an inexhaustible source for
mathematical research and mathematics education. Math teachers at all levels can learn from their
students about their cultures. Students can show the way to carry out a practice. The trades of artisans,
fishermen, peasants, in short, all the groups that master a practice, are based on knowledge that has
been developed by difficult paths, over generations. I underline in a very special way the exemplary
attention that Paulus has devoted to women in the evolution of African culture
As Paulus Gerdes rightly pointed out in his writings and in his lectures, during the study of an
event, one rarely understands how the result was discovered. The path leading to a discovery is, in
general, very different from the paved road of deduction. In the poetic language, Paulus tells us that "A
via da descoberta abre-serpenteando por um terreno de vegetación densa y cheio de obstáculos, a vents
aparentemente sem salida, hasta that, repetitively, encraed a clareira de surpresas relampejantes. ,
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almost from imediato, an alegria do inesperado "heureka" rasga triunfantemente o caminho. "In fact,
Paulus was a poet in his thought as a philosopher, mathematician, anthropologist and educator. (According to Ubiratan D'Ambrosio, in https://grouphpm.wordpress.com/2014/12/02/paulus-gerdes-in-
memoriam, photo : in http://www.ascleiden.nl/news/obituary-professor-paulus-gerdes)
6. Various information
a) Popularization of history of mathematics
As part of the activities of the Moroccan Association for the History of Sciences, professor Driss
Lamrabet gave, in April 2014 at the Faculty of humanities of Rabat a lecture on the theme:
Mathematics in the al Mohad era through the contributions of Ibn Mun'im (Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn
Mun'im al-'Abdarī, Abu Ja'far, died in Marrakech in 626H / 1229) (in Arabic)
b) Creation in Mauritania of the Association of Mauritanian Scientific Doctors
(A.D.S.M.)
Executive Office
President: Dr Mârouf OULD AHMED
Secretary: Dr Elkhoumeini OULD MOULAYE ELY
Treasurer: Dr Brahim OULD ELEMINE
Communication: Dr. Oumkalthoum Mint MOHAMED SALECK
Among its 40 members there are 7 PhDs in Mathematics:
Name Doctorate Country
Mohamed Yahya Dah Mathematics 2006 Tohoku University;
JAPON
Ben Med Abdellahi Med Ahmed Applied mathematics 2009 LeHavre; FRANCE
Moctar Salem Ould Mohamed Mathematics and computer science
2009
Saint-Etienne; FRANCE
Sidi Mohamed Ould Maouloud Applied mathematics 2007 Dauphine ; FRANCE
Ahmedoune O.Abdi Probability and Statistics SENEGAL
Elkhoumeini ould moulay eely Applied mathematics MOROCCO
Ould Aboubecrine Mohamed
Mahmoud
Probability and Statistics 2011 FRANCE
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