On medieval Islamic multiplication tables

Dietetics in medieval Islamic culture.

The origins of dietetics understood as "the systematic control of food and drink in order to conserve health or combat disease"1 may be traced back to the Hippocratic Corpus, written chiefly between 430 and 330 BC. In Tradition in medicine the author argues that in the beginning man must have eaten the same food as the animals, that is, the produce of the earth, fruits, vegetables and grass. Th...

Closest Multiplication Tables of Groups

Suppose that all groups of order n are defined on the same set G of cardinality n, and let the distance of two groups of order n be the number of pairs (a, b) ∈ G×G where the two group operations differ. Given a group G(◦) of order n, we find all groups of order n, up to isomorphism, that are closest to G(◦).

Decagonal and Quasi - Crystalline Tilings in Medieval Islamic

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Notes on the second moment method, Erdős multiplication tables

Contributions of Medieval Islamic physicians to the history of tracheostomy.

Tracheostomy was first described by Greco-Roman physicians, including Paulus of Aegina. Medieval Islamic clinicians extended the Greco-Roman ideas with substantial contributions to the field of surgery, including tracheostomy. Although Al-Zahrawi (936-1013 CE) stated that he had not heard or read of any Islamic physicians having performed tracheostomy, there is evidence that many prominent Isla...