Publications of Jan P. Hogendijk

Publications in
Dutch (Nederlands)
Most recent publication in English
Beginning of list of publications in English
Other languages

Book reviews.

The English part of Al-Sijzi's treatise on geometrical problem solving (Tehran 1996) is now available free of charge on the internet, in ps-format and in pdf-format.

Publicaties in het Nederlands

  1. Twee vertellingen over pi. Euclides 55 (1980), pp. 395-408.   Download
  2. Occulte wiskunde. Nieuwe Wiskrant 7 (1988), no. 3, pp. 35-44.   Download
  3. Het Brouillon Project van Desargues. In: A. Grootendorst (ed.), Vakantiecursus 1989. Wiskunde in de Gouden Eeuw. Amsterdam: Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI syllabus 25), pp. 123-142.
  4. Over de geschiedenis van de cijfers. Nieuwe Wiskrant 10 (1990), no. 2, pp. 10-12.   Download
  5. Babylonische astronomie: een vergeten hoofdstuk uit de geschiedenis van de wiskunde. In: F. van der Blij e.a. (ed.) Kaleidoscoop van de wiskunde 1. Utrecht (Epsilon Press), 1990, pp. 161-180.   Download
  6. Middeleeuws Islamitische methoden voor de bepaling van de richting van Mekka. Nieuwe Wiskrant 12 (1993) no. 4, pp. 45-52. Download
  7. Kegelsneden in de Griekse oudheid. In: A. Grootendorst (ed.) Vakantiecursus kegelsneden en kwadratische vormen, CWI Syllabus no. 40, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (Amsterdam 1995), pp. 1-14.
  8. De wortels van de algebra. Nieuwe Wiskrant 15 (1995) no. 2, pp. 41-48, herdruk in Michiel Doorman e.a., ed., Tien jaar NWD: een lichtbundel, Utrecht: Freudenthal Instituut, 2004, pp. 22-28.
    9. Download hier.
  9. 4000 jaar wiskunde, De Vakidioot, 1996-7 no. 1, pp. 6-8.
  10. Een workshop over Iraanse mozaieken. Nieuwe Wiskrant 16 (1996) no. 2, pp. 38-42.   Download
  11. Algorismi's rekenboekje compleet. Nieuwe Wiskrant 17 (1997) no. 1, pp. 32-33. Download
  12. Hypatia. Pythagoras (wiskundetijdschrift voor jongeren) 37 (1997) no. 1, p. 4
  13. Al-Khwarizmi. Pythagoras (wiskundetijdschrift voor jongeren) 38 (1998) no. 2, pp. 4-5
  14. Maankalender, paasdatum en het jaar 2000. Nieuwe Wiskrant 19 no. 4 (juni 2000), pp. 4-6. Download
  15. Het rekenwonder van Samarkand, IMPACT (Leiden), 14 (juli 2000), pp. 14-15.
  16. Pythagoras en de wiskunde. De Vakidioot 2000-2001 no. 1, pp. 8-11.
  17. Inleiding, in Natasja Bouwman, Charlene Kalle, Het gebruik van wiskunde in de Islam, Utrecht: Epsilon Uitgaven, 2002.
  18. Het mysterie van de Mekkawijzers van Isfahan, Nieuwe Wiskrant 22 (2002) no. 2, pp. 4-11. Download
    Herdruk (met inleiding en toelichting van de redactie op de noodzakelijke boldriehoeksmeting) in Uitwiskeling, driemaandelijks tijdschrift voor wiskundeonderwijs (België) 20 (2003) no. 1, pp. 24-51.
  19. Wiskunde en Islamitische kunst: werk in uitvoering, Euclides 79 no. 4 (2004), pp. 135-137.
  20. De Vedische wiskunde en de berekeningen van Goeroe Tirthaji, Nieuwe Wiskrant 23 no. 3 (maart 2004), pp. 49-52. Download Zie de Engelse versie voor de literatuurlijst.
  21. Structuur en schoonheid in de Sleutel tot de Rekenkunde van al-Kashi (ca. 1425), in Vakantiecursus 2004: Structuur in schoonheid, Amsterdam: Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, 2004, CWI Syllabus 53, pp. 111-123, 77. Ook verschenen in Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde, vijfde serie, deel 6, nummer 1 (maart 2005), pp.~32-39.   Download (nog een figuur hier)
  22. Geschenken uit het Oosten (inaugurele rede, Leiden, 8 maart 2005), Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde, vijfde serie, deel 6, nummer 4 (december 2005), pp.~280-286, download het artikel in pdf
  23. Omar Khayyam, wiskundige en wijnkenner, in Almanak 2004-2005, Fata Morgana, Utrecht, studievereniging A-Eskwadraat, pp. 142-146.
  24. Lees Euclides! Euclides 81 no. 4 (februari 2006) pp. 171-173. ISSN 0165-0394.
  25. Het rekenwonder van het Rapenburg, Eureka (Leiden) 3 nr. 12 (2006), pp. 15-17. Download hier
  26. Inaugurele rede "Geschenken uit het Oosten," Leiden, 8 maart 2005, het boekje is verschenen in maart 2006, ook beschikbaar in pdf
    Verkorte vorm van de rede: "Geschenken uit het Oosten" De Cascade 3 (voorjaar 2006), pp. 50-56. ISSN 1572-1876.
  27. Hoofdstuk: Indiase en Arabische wiskunde, pp. 81-100 in Machiel Keestra, red. Een cultuurgeschiedenis van de wiskunde, Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Nieuwezijds, 2006, ISBN 90 5712 136 0.
  28. Ludolph van Ceulen en zijn boek Vanden Circkel: schermutselingen rond het getal pi, in Jan Bos en Eric Geleijns, ed., Boekenwijsheid: Drie eeuwen kennis en cultuur in 30 bijzondere boeken, Zutphen: Walburg Pers, 2009, pp. 13-20.
  29. Lijfrentes in de zeventiende en achttiende eeuw, in: Tel uit je winst, wiskunde in geld en spelen: Vakantiecursus 2009., Amsterdam 2009, CWI Syllabus 59, pp. 91-101.
  30. Arabische astrologie en West-Europese wiskunde, Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde, vijfde serie, 10 nr. 3 (sept. 2009), pp. 191-196.     Download.
  31. Over echte en fictieve personen in de Herschepping van de Wereld van Floris Cohen: Ibn al-Haytham, al-Toesi, al-Kepler en al-Galilei, Studium: Tijdschrift voor Wetenschaps- en Universiteitsgeschiedenis 3 (2009), pp. 133-140.
  32. De Utrecht Zij, in: M. van Egmond, B. Jaski, H. Mulder, ed., Bijzonder Onderzoek: Een ontdekkingstocht door de Bijzondere Collecties van de Universiteitsbibliotheek Utrecht, Utrecht: Universiteitsbibliotheek, 2009, pp. 144-147. (ISBN 978 90 400 7657 2) Download.

Publications in English

  1. How trisections of the angle were transmitted from Greek to Islamic geometry. Historia Mathematica 8 (1981), pp. 417-438.
  2. Rearranging the Arabic mathematical and astronomical manuscript Bankipore 2468, Journal for the History of Arabic Science 6 (1982), 133-159.
  3. Ibn al-Haytham's Completion of the Conics: Critical edition with translation and commentary of an 11th century reconstruction of Book VIII of Apollonius' Conics. Ph. D. thesis. Utrecht, 1983
  4. Greek and Arabic constructions of the regular heptagon. Archive for History of Exact Sciences 30 (1984), pp. 197-330.
  5. (with T. Langermann) A hitherto unknown Hellenistic treatise on the regular polyhedra. Historia Mathematica 11 (1984), pp. 325-326.
  6. Ibn al-Haytham's Completion of the Conics. New York etc. (Springer), 1985, Sources in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences no. 7, 417 pp. ISBN 0-387-96013-9, 3-540-96013-9 (revised version of no. 3 in this list).
  7. Al-Kuhi's construction of an equilateral pentagon in a given square. Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften 1 (1985), pp. 100-144.
  8. Diocles and the geometry of curved surfaces. Centaurus 28 (1985), pp. 169-184.
  9. Thabit ibn Qurra and the pair of amicable numbers 17296, 18416. Historia Mathematica 12 (1985), pp. 269-273.
  10. Arabic traces of lost works of Apollonius. Archive for History of Exact sciences 35 (1986), pp. 187-253. Download this article.
  11. Discovery of an 11th century geometrical compilation: the Kitab al-Istikmal of Al-Mu'taman ibn Hud, king of Saragossa. Historia Mathematica 13 (1986), pp. 43-52.
  12. Abu'l-Jud's answer to a question of al-Biruni concerning the regular heptagon. In: D.A. King, G. Saliba (eds.) From deferent to equant: a volume of studies in the ancient and medieval near East in honor of E.S. Kennedy. New York (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 500), 1987, pp. 175-184.
  13. Observations on the icosahedron in Euclid's Elements. Historia Mathematica 14 (1987), pp. 175-177.
  14. On Euclid's lost Porisms and its Arabic traces. Bolletino di Storia delle Science Matematiche 7 (1988), pp. 93-115.
  15. Three Islamic lunar crescent visibility tables. Journal for the History of Astronomy 19 (1988), pp. 29-44.
  16. New light on the lunar visibility table of Ya`qub ibn Tariq. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 47 (1988), pp. 95-104.
  17. The treatise on geometry in Al-Hindi's Problems of Philosophy. Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften 4 (1988), pp. 19-32.
  18. The mathematical structure of two Islamic astrological tables for ``casting the rays''. Centaurus 32 (1989), pp. 171-202.
  19. Sharaf al-Din al-Tusi on the number of positive roots of cubic equations. Historia Mathematica 16 (1989), pp. 69-85.
  20. (with S. Brentjes) Notes on Thabit ibn Qurra and his rule for amicable numbers. Historia mathematica 16 (1989), pp. 373-378.
  21. (with E.S. Kennedy) Two tables from an Arabic astronomical handbook for the Mongol viceroy of Tibet. In: E. Leichty e.a. (eds.), A scientific humanist. Studies in memory of Abraham Sachs. Philadelphia 1989 (Occasional publications of the Samuel Noah Kramer Fund 9), pp. 233-242.
  22. New findings of Greek geometrical fragments in the Arabic tradition. In: G. Endress (ed.). Symposium Graeco-Arabicum II = Archivum Graeco-Arabicum, vol. 1. Amsterdam 1989, pp. 22-24.
  23. A medieval Arabic treatise on mensuration by Qadi Abu Bakr. Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften 6 (1990), pp. 130-150.
  24. Al-Khwarizmi's table of the ``sine of the hours" and the underlying sine table. Historia Scientiarum 42 (1991), pp. 1-12.
  25. Desargues' Brouillon project and the Conics of Apollonius. Centaurus 34 (1991), pp. 1-43.
  26. The geometrical parts of the Istikmal of Yusuf al-Mu'taman ibn Hud (11th century). An analytical table of contents. Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences 41 (1991), pp. 207-281.
  27. Bibliography of publications of Ahmad Salim Saidan (1914-1991) on the history of mathematics and astronomy in Islamic civilization, and list of medieval Arabic texts published by him. Historia Mathematica 19 (1992), pp. 439-443.
  28. The Arabic version of Euclid's On Division. In: M. Folkerts, J.P. Hogendijk (eds.): Vestigia Mathematica. Studies in medieval and early modern mathematics in honour of H.L.L. Busard., Amsterdam (Rodopi) 1993, pp. 143-162
  29. Four constructions of two mean proportionals between two lines in the Book of Perfection Istikmal of Al-Mu'taman. Journal for the History of Arabic Science 10 (1992-4), pp. 13-29.
  30. An Arabic text on the comparison of the five regular polyhedra: "Book XV" of the Revision of the Elements by Muhyi al-Din al-Maghribi. Zeitschrift für Geschichte der arabisch-islamischen Wissenschaften 8 (1994), pp. 133-233.
  31. Pure mathematics in Islamic civilization. In: Ivor Grattan-Guinness (ed.), Companion Encyclopaedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences, London-New York (Routledge), pp. 70-79. Reprinted in: Helen Lauer, ed., History and Philosophy of Science for African Undergraduates, Ibadan, Nigeria, 2003, pp. 494-499.
  32. B.L. van der Waerden's detective work in ancient and medieval mathematical astronomy. Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde, 4th series, 12, pp. 145-158.
  33. The qibla table in the Ashrafi Zij. In: Anton von Godtstedter (ed.) Ad Radices. Festband zum fünfzigjährigen Bestehen des Instituts für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main Stuttgart (Steiner), 1994, pp. 81-94.
  34. Al-Mu'taman ibn Hud, 11th-century king of Saragossa and brilliant mathematician. Historia Mathematica, 22 (1995), pp. 1-18.
  35. Mathematics in medieval Islamic Spain, in: Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, August 3-11, 1994, Zürich, (Basel: Birkhäuser, 1995), vol. 2, pp. 1568-1580.
  36. Karen Hunger Parshall, Jan P. Hogendijk, Editorial: The history of mathematics, the history of science, mathematics and Historia Mathematica, Historia Mathematica, 23 (1996), pp. 1-5.
  37. Al-Sijzi's treatise on geometrical problem solving. Translated and annotated by Jan P. Hogendijk. With the Arabic text and a Persian translation by Muhammad Bagheri. Tehran: Fatemi Publishing Co., 1996, ISBN 964-318-114-6. 112 pp. See the ordering information.
  38. The Book on Making Easy the Ways to the Derivation on Geometrical Figures by al-Sijzi. A fourth/tenth century text on problem-solving strategies in geometry. In: First Iranian Mathematics Education Conference, August 27-29, 1996, Invited Papers, Isfahan: Technical University, 1996, pp. 9-20.
  39. Transmission, transformation and originality: the case of Greek and Arabic geometry, in: F. Jamil Ragep and Sally Ragep (eds.) Tradition, Transmission and Transformation: Proceedings of two conferences on pre-modern science held at the University of Oklahoma, Leiden: Brill, 1996, pp. 31-64.
  40. Which version of Menelaus' Spherics was used by al-Mu'taman ibn Hud in his Istikmal? in: Menso Folkerts (ed.), Mathematische Probleme im Mittelalter - der lateininsche und arabische Sprachbereich, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1996, Wolfenbütteler Mittelalter-Studien Band 10, pp. 17-44.
  41. Al-Mu'taman's simplified lemmas for solving "Alhazen's problem", in Josep Casulleras, Julio Samsò (eds.), From Baghdad to Barcelona: Studies in the Islamic Exact Sciences in Honour of Prof. Juan Vernet, Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona, 1996 (Anuari de Filologia XIX (1996) B-2), vol. 1, pp. 59-101.
  42. An anonymous Persian manuscript (10th c. Hijra) on the construction of mosaics. Workshop for mathematics teachers. With a Persian translation by Mehran Akhbarifar. Isfahan: First Iranian Mathematics Education Conference, August 27-29, 1996.
  43. Articles: Conics, Abu Ja`far al-Khazin, Mathematics in Islam, Al-Mu'taman ibn Hud, Sharaf al-Din al-Tusi, Ya`qub ibn Tariq, in Helaine Selin, ed., Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures , Dordrecht 1997.
  44. Die Schrift des Ibrahim b. Sinan b. Tabit über die Schatteninstrumente. Übersetzt und erläutert von Paul Luckey (Phil. Diss. Tübingen, 1941), (Arabische Texte) herausgegeben von Jan P. Hogendijk. Frankfurt am Main: Institut für Geschichte der arabisch-islamischen Wissenschaften, 1999. Publications of the Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Sciences, Series Islamic Mathematics and Astronomy, vol. 101.
  45. Book 1 of Jan de Witt's Elementa Curvarum Linearum, Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde, 4e serie, 17 (1999), pp. 453-463.
  46. Al-Nayrizi's Mysterious Determination of the Azimuth of the Qibla at Baghdad, SCIAMVS 1 (2000), pp. 49-70.
  47. Chapter: Islamic Mathematics, in: The History of Mathematics from Antiquity to the Present: A Selective Annotated Bibliography, edited by Joseph W. Dauben: Revised Edition on CD-ROM edited by Albert C. Lewis, in cooperation with the International Commission on the History of Mathematics, Providence: American Mathematical Society, 2000, CD-ROM, ISBN 0-8218-0844-3. You can see the chapter by clicking here.
  48. Traces of the Lost "Geometrical Elements" of Menelaus in Two Texts of al-Sijzi, Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften 13 (2000), pp. 129-164.
  49. Al-Nayrizi's Own Proof of Euclid's Parallel Postulate, in: Sic itur ad astra. Studien zur Geschichte der Mathematik und Naturwissenschaft. Festschrift für den Arabisten Paul Kunitzsch zum 70. Geburtstag. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2000, pp. 252-265.
  50. Introduction (pp. v-xix) in: Al-Sijzi, Abu Sa`id Ahmad b. Muhammad b. `Abdaljalil, Collection of Geometrical Works (majmu`a min rasa'il handasiyya), ed. F. Sezgin, Frankfurt: Institut für Geschichte der arabisch-islamischen Wissenschaften, Series C: Facsimile Editions, vol. 64. 2000.
  51. The Geometrical Works of Abu Sa`id al-Darir al-Jurjani, SCIAMVS 2 (2001), 47-74.
  52. The Contributions by Abu Nasr ibn Iraq and al-Saghani to the Theory of Seasonal Hour Lines on Astrolabes and Sundials, Zeitschrift für Geschichte der arabisch-islamischen Wissenschaften 14 (2001), 1-30.
  53. The Surface Area of the Bicylinder and Archimedes' Method, Historia Mathematica 29 (2002), 199-203.
  54. Two Editions of Ibn al-Haytham's Completion of the Conics, Historia Mathematica 29 (2002), 247-265.
  55. Anthyphairetic Ratio Theory in Medieval Islamic Mathematics, in: Yvonne Dold-Samplonius et al., ed., From China to Paris: 2000 Years Transmission of Mathematical Ideas, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002, Boethius Band 46, pp. 187-202.
  56. The Burning Mirrors of Diocles: Reflections on the Methodology and Purpose of the History of Pre-Modern Science, Early Science and Medicine 7 (2002), 181-197.
  57. (with A.I. Sabra), Introduction (pp. vii-xix) in J.P.Hogendijk, A.I. Sabra, eds., The Enterprise of Science in Islam: New Perspectives, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003, Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology.
  58. (with B.A. Rosenfeld), A mathematical treatise written in the Samarqand observatory of Ulugh Beg, Zeitschrift für Geschichte der arabisch-islamischen Wissenschaften 15 (2003), 25-65.
  59. (with J.L. Berggren) The Fragments of Abu Sahl al-Kuhi's Lost Geometrical Works in the Writings of al-Sijzi, pp. 605-665 in: C. Burnett, J.P. Hogendijk, K. Plofker, M. Yano, eds., Studies in the History of the Exact Sciences in Honour of David Pingree, Leiden: Brill, 2003. Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science, vol. 54.
  60. The geometrical problems of Nu`aim ibn Muhammad ibn Musa, SCIAMVS, vol. 4 (2003), 59-136.
  61. The lost geometrical parts of the Istikmal of Yusuf al-Mu'taman ibn Hud (11th century) in the redaction of Ibn Sartaq (14th century): An Analytical Table of Contents, Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences 53 (2004), 19-34.
  62. Vedic mathematics and the calculations of Guru Tirthaji, Pi in the Sky, no. 8 (December 2004), pp. 24-27. Download issue 8 in pdf (free of charge).
  63. Applied mathematics in Eleventh Century Al-Andalus: Ibn Mu`adh al-Jayyani and his computation of astrological houses and aspects, Centaurus 47 (2005), pp. 87-114.
  64. A new look at the Barber's Astrolabe in the Arabian Nights, pp. 65-76 in: A. Vrolijk, Jan P. Hogendijk, ed., O ye Gentlemen: Arabic Studies on Science and Literary Culture in Honour of Remke Kruk, Leiden, Brill 2007. Download this article.
  65. Similar mathematics in different cultures: Jamshid al-Kashi and Ludolph van Ceulen on the determination of pi; pp. 189-203 in Mélanges offerts à Hossam Elkhadem par ses amis et élèves, ed. Frank Daelemans, Jean-Marie Duvosquel, Robert Halleux and David Juste, Brussels, Archives et Bibliothèques de Belgique, Numéro Spécial 83 / Archief- en Bibliotheekwezen in België, 83 Extranummer, 2007, [ISSN: 0775-0722].
  66. Ancient and modern secrets of Isfahan, Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde, fifth series, 9 (june 2008), p. 121. Download this article in pdf
  67. Two beautiful geometrical theorems by Abu Sahl Kuhi in a 17th century Dutch translation, Ta'rikh-e Elm: Iranian Journal for the History of Science 6 (2008), 1-36 (ISSN 1735-0537).     Download this article (pages in reverse order)
  68. Al-Kashi's determination of pi to 16 decimals in an old manuscript, Zeitschrift für Geschichte der arabisch-islamischen Wissenschaften 19 (2009), 73-152.
  69. The Introduction to Geometry by Qusta ibn Luqa: Translation and Commentary, Suhayl 8 (2008), 163-221. Download.
  70. Iranian mathematics in the Netherlands in the 17th Century, in: Martine Gosselink and Dirk J. Tang, ed., Iran and the Netherlands: Interwoven through the ages, Gronsveld and Rotterdam: Barjesteh van Waalwijk van Doorn and Co's Uitgeversmaatschappij, 2009, pp. 161-166. ISBN 97890 5613 0985. Download

Publications en Français

  1. Le roi-géomètre al-Mu'taman ibn Hud et son livre de la perfection (Kitab al-Istikmal). In: Actes du premier colloque sur l'histoire des mathématiques arabes. Algiers (1988), pp. 51-66.
  2. L'étude des sections coniques dans la tradition Arabe, in: Actes du 3ème colloque Maghrébin sur les Mathématiques Arabes, Tipaza. Alger: École Normale Supérieure, 1998, pp. 147-158.

Publication in Arabic

Al-Malik al-muhandis al-Mu'taman ibn Hud wa-mu'allafuhu Kitab al-Istikmal. in: Cahier du Seminaire Ibn al-Haytham sur l'histoire des mathématiques Arabes 3 (Janvier 1993), Algiers: Ecole Normale Supérieure [translation by Y. Guergour of "Le roi-géomètre al-Mu'taman ibn Hud et son livre de la perfection (Kitab al-Istikmal)"].

Editions and translations of medieval Arabic texts:

This is a list of Arabic texts and fragment, arranged chronologically according to (ancient or medieval) author, which have been edited by me, with references to my list of publications. You can see the list by clicking on the title above.

Publications in Persian

  1. Introduction to Al-Sijzi's Treatise on geometrical problem solving: Persian translation by Mohammad Bagheri in Al-Sijzi's treatise on geometrical problem solving, Tehran: Fatemi Publishing Co., 1996, also in First Iranian Mathematics Education Conference, August 27-29, 1996, Invited Papers, Isfahan: Technical University, 1996, pp. 9-18.
  2. An anonymous Persian manuscript (10th c. Hijra) on the construction of mosaics. Workshop for mathematics teachers. Persian translation by Mehran Akhbarifar. Isfahan: First Iranian Mathematics Education Conference, August 27-29, 1996.
  3. Negahi beh riyaziyat dar Espaniya-ye Daure-ye Islami, Nashr-e Riyazi (Iran University Press) 8, no. 1 (1375 A.H. solar) (=1997) pp. 43-49. (translation of "Mathematics in medieval Islamic Spain" by Mohammad Bagheri)
  4. Pazuheshhaye akhir piramun-e ta'rikh-e riyaziyat wa nojum dar tamaddon-e Islami (gharnhaye dowwom ta nohom hejri) (Current studies in the history of mathematics and astronomy in Islamic civilization) , Nashr-e Riyazi 9 no. 2 (Oct. 1998), pp. 43-52. [translated by M. Bagheri]
  5. Resalehaye riyazi wa-nojumi-ye Mahani (The mathematical and astronomical works of al-Mahani), Roshd-e Amuzesh-e Riyazi no. 52 (1998), pp. 7-15. [translated by M. Bagheri]
  6. Kargahi darbare-ye kashikari-ye Irani (A workshop on Iranian mosaics), Farnud Mordad 1377 (A.H. solar) (= 1998), pp. 7-13 (Esfahan) (Persian translation of Een workshop over Iraanse mozaieken. Nieuwe Wiskrant 16 (1996) no. 2, pp. 38-42.).
  7. Kargah-e Usturlab [A workshop on the astrolabe], in: Ahmad Sharafeddin (ed.), Majmu`-e Maghalat-e dowwomin-e hamayesh-e ta'rikh-e riyazi , Bandar Abbas: Hormozgan University, A.H. (solar) 1378 / 1999, pp. 151-154, also in: Najm (= journal of the Astronomical Research Centre, Qom), 28 nov. 2000, pp. 19-21 [translated by M. Bagheri]
  8. Ta'thir-e Neirizi dar gharb [The Influence of al-Nayrizi in the West], in: Proceedings of the Conference on Fadl ebn-e Hatem Neirizi, 27-28 Mehr 1378, Shiraz: Center of Publications of the University of Shiraz, 1379 A.H. (solar) (2001), pp. 61-87 [translated by M. Bagheri].
  9. Articles in Daneshname-ye Jahan-e Eslam (Encyclopaedia of the World of Islam), ed. G.A. Haddad Adel, Tehran: Encyclopedia Islamica Foundation: bayt (astrological house) in vol. 5 (2000), pp. 76-77; tathlith-e zawiya (trisection of the angle) in vol. 6 (2002), pp. 493-495; tarbi`-e dayira (quadrature of the circle, with Farid Qasemlu) in vol. 7 (2003), pp. 9-11, ta`dil al-zaman (equation of time) in vol. 7, pp. 294-296, ta.d`if-e moka``ab (duplication of the cube) in vol. 7 (2003), pp. 470-471, taqdim al-i`tidalayn (precession of equinoxes), vol. 7, pp. 768-771.
  10. Asrar-e qeblehnamaha-ye Esfahan, Esfahan, Khane-ye riyaziyat, Farwardin 1383 (translation of Het mysterie van de Mekkawijzers van Isfahan).
  11. Riyaziyyat-e Iran dar holand gharn-e hefdahom, in bastar-e rawabet-e Iran va-Holand dar godhar-e zaman = Iran and the Netherlands: Interwoven through the ages, Gronsveld and Rotterdam: Barjesteh van Waalwijk van Doorn and Co's Uitgeversmaatschappij, 2009, pp. 161-166. ISBN 97890 5613 0985. Download
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2009