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Solomon Gandz

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Name
  
Solomon Gandz

Died
  
March 30, 1954, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Education
  
University of Vienna (1911)

Books
  
Studies in Hebrew astronomy and mathematics

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada

Solomon Gandz (2 February 1883, Tarnobrzeg, Austria – 30 March 1954) was a historian of science. Gandz published on the history of mathematics and astronomy in medieval Jewish and Islamic civilizations.

Works

  • 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.
  • References

    Solomon Gandz Wikipedia