Solomon Gandz

Solomon Gandz
Nascimento2 de fevereiro de 1883
Tarnobrzeg
Morte30 de março de 1954 (71 anos)
Filadélfia
CidadaniaCisleitânia, Estados Unidos
Alma mater
Ocupaçãobibliotecário, historiador da matemática, matemático, especialista em estudos judaicos, arabista, tradutor
Distinções
Empregador(a)Universidade Yeshiva, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning

Solomon Gandz (Tarnobrzeg, Áustria, 2 de fevereiro de 1883 – 30 de março de 1954) foi um historiador da ciência austríaco.[1]

Gandz publicou sobre história da matemática e história da astronomia nas civilizações judaica e islâmica.

De 1915 a 1919 foi professor de teologia e história judaica em escolas de Viena.

De 1923 a 1934 foi bibliotecário e professor de árabe e hebreu medieval no Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary da Universidade Yeshiva em Nova Iorque.

Foi palestrante convidado do Congresso Internacional de Matemáticos em Oslo (1936: The invention of the decimal fractions and the application of the exponential calculus by Immanuel Bonfils of Tarascon (c. 1350)).[2]

Obras

  • Gandz, S.: The invention of the decimal fractions and the application of the exponential calculus by Immanuel Bonfils of Tarascon (c. 1350), Isis 25 (1936), 16–45.
  • Solomon Gandz: "Studies in Hebrew Astronomy and Mathematics" Selected with an introduction by Professor Shlomo Sternberg of Harvard. KTAV Publishing House NY 1970. ISBN 978-0870680786

Referências

  1. ↑ Martin Levey, "Solomon Gandz, 1884-1954", Isis Vol. 46, No. 2 (Jun., 1955), pp. 107–110 .
  2. ↑ Comptes Rendus du Congrès International des Mathématiciens Oslo 1936. Tome II Conférences de Sections. pp. 273-275

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