TEXT

Manẓūmah fī al-ḥisāb bi-al-yad

Title (arabic)

منظومة في الحساب باليد

Title (translit)

Manẓūmah fī al-ḥisāb bi-al-yad

Alias

Urjūza fī ḥisāb al-yad
Lawḥ al-ḍabṭ

Author

Language

Arabic

Subject

Text type

First-order prose composition (or compilation) [matn]

Commented in

Notes

An Arabic poem on finger arithmetic.

ismi_id

478799

Literature References

Rozenfeld, Boris, and Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu. 2003. Mathematicians, Astronomers and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilisation and Their Works (7th-19th c.). Istanbul: Research Centre for Islamic History, Art, and Culture.

P. 308 (no. 910), M1.

King, David. 1986. A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns; The American Research Center in Egypt.

P. 141 (F36), 6.3.10.

Saidan, Ahmad. 1968. “Finger Reckoning in an Arabic Poem”. The Mathematics Teacher 61 (7): 707-8.