Ph.D, M.Sc. and other projects

This page contains links to Ph.D, M.Sc. and other projects in history of mathematics which are available on the internet and which were supervised by me. The Ph.D. projects are all in English; some of the student projects are in Dutch.

Ph.D. dissertation of Mohammad Bagheri (Tehran), Books I-IV of Kushyar Ibn Labban's Jami` Zij: An Arabic Astronomical Handbook by an 11th-century Iranian Scholar (Public defence Dec. 20, 2006).

List of Ph.D. dissertations, M.Sc. theses and other papers in History of Mathematics (1977-2008) which were written at the Mathematics Department, University of Utrecht. These dissertations and papers can be consulted and borrowed in Room 704, Department of Mathematics, University of Utrecht.

Astrolabium-workshop by Huseyin Sen and Wilfred de Graaf, Istanbul, see the report in the Newsletter of the Dutch Institute in Istanbul.

Invitation to the workshop "The astrolabe" by Wilfred de Graaf and Jules Lamers in Aleppo, Institute for the History of Arabic Science, August 4, 2008. Another version of the invitation.

Website on Frans van Schooten Jr. (1615-1660) by Henk Hietbrink, mainly for educational purposes. ("Leraar in Onderzoek"-project)

Bachelor-thesis by Eric van Lit: The Measurement of the circle} of Archimedes in the revision of the Middle Books (tahrir al-mutawassitat) by Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (Arabic edition with English translation and commentary), October 2008.

Bachelor-thesis by Wiggert Loonstra on mathematics education in the early 19th century in the Netherlands, with special reference to Jan Hendrik van Swinden and Jacob de Gelder, August 2008.

Website on Jacob de Gelder (1765-1843), by Wiggert Loonstra.

www.wiskundecanon.nl (website by Wiggert Loonstra and Johannes Lok)

Blogsite of Hüseyin Sen while in Istanbul (working in the new museum for history of Islamic science)

Wetenschap van het Midden {essays on history of mathematics and astronomy in ancient China by students, spring 2008).

Article (in Dutch, 2004) by Eelco Nederkoorn on his project on the qiblafinder in Dhahran, SA (jointly supervised by prof. Hassan Azad and me), 2003.

Birgit van Dalen, Anne Keune Website: geschiedenis van de wiskundige notatie (Dutch).

Leo Boer, The Constant of Nineveh. This paper (in English) can be downloaded at http://www.xs4all.nl/~garlakk

Gerbrand Hagmolen of Ten Have, Mario Topper,   Archimedes over Drijvende Lichamen

Gerbrand Hagmolen of Ten Have, Exploring the Theory of the Rainbow (ten-minutes talk at the Joint AMS-MAA Mathematics Meeting in New Orleans, 2001)
Regenboog (Nederlands, afstudeerproject)