Abstract
Bīrūnī’s treatise on the rule of three and its variations, Maqāla fī rāshīkāt al-Hind, is an amalgam of Indian and Greek mathematics. He applies examples of Sanskrit origin and explains the rules based on the Greek theory of ratios. The printed Hyderabad version of the treatise is an uncritical copy of the only known manuscript, which has pages bound in an incorrect order. This is a study of the treatise, preliminary to producing a critical edition.
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Kusuba, T. (2014). A treatise by Al-Bīrūnī on the rule of three and its variations. In From Alexandria, Through Baghdad: Surveys and Studies in the Ancient Greek and Medieval Islamic Mathematical Sciences in Honor of J.L. Berggren (pp. 469–485). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36736-6_21
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