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.
From 1915 to 1919, Gandz was professor of Jewish theology and Jewish history in the gymnasium and realschule in Vienna.
From 1923 to 1934, he was librarian and professor of Arabic and Medieval Hebrew at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University in New York.
From 1942 until his death in March 1954, he was research professor of the history of Semitic Civilization at the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (except for the war years when he was in government service).
Selections from his collected works were published by KTAV Publishing House NY in 1970. "Studies in Hebrew Astronomy and Mathematics" by Solomon Gandz. Selected with an introduction by Professor Shlomo Sternberg of Harvard. ISBN 978-0870680786
Among his major works is his annotated translation of Maimonides' Code "Sanctification of the New Moon" included in the Yale Judaica Series as well as his edition of Mishnat ha-Middot.
SolomonGandz (2 February 1883, Tarnobrzeg, Austria – 30 March 1954) was a historian of science. Gandz published on the history of mathematics and astronomy...
Archived 2010-06-21 at the Wayback Machine. Translated from the Hebrew by SolomonGandz; supplemented, introduced, and edited by Julian Obermann; with an astronomical...
Notation: A Comparative History, Cambridge University Press, 2010, p. 157; SolomonGandz, Hebrew Numerals, Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research...
professor of Hebrew, 1972–1973 Solomon Zeitlin, historian of the second Jewish commonwealth and early Christianity. SolomonGandz, research professor of the...
(Interpretation of a Difficult Passage in the Palestinian Talmud)". SolomonGandz. Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research, Vol. 17, (1947-1948)...
of Seasons, SolomonGandz and Hyman Klein (1961) ISBN 0-300-00322-6 Book 3, Treatise 8, The Sanctification of the New Moon, SolomonGandz, Julian Obermann...
supported by historians of mathematics, such as Carl Benjamin Boyer, SolomonGandz and Bartel Leendert van der Waerden. However, the point is debatable...
Applicable to Heat". Philosophical Magazine. 4th Series. 40: 122–127. SolomonGandz (1936), The sources of al-Khwarizmi's algebra, Osiris I, p. 263–277:...
scholar SolomonGandz who published a lengthy paper in 1939 on the significance of the oral tradition in the development of civilizations. Gandz advanced...
Freudenthal Ragnar Frisch Otto Frostman Rudolf Fueter Fujiwara Matsusaburo SolomonGandz Alexander Gelfond Harald Geppert [it] Joseph E. Gillis Wallace Givens...
Tropfke at the Mathematics Genealogy Project (retrieved 2019-01-25) SolomonGandz: Geschichte der Elementarmathematik - dritter Band, dritte Auflage (review)...
367–368. doi:10.2307/2301803. Review of Volume I published in 1936: SolomonGandz (September 1936). "Reviewed Work: History of Hindu Mathematics by B...
Osgood Natural Science Chemistry George Willard Wheland Mathematics SolomonGandz Marshall Harvey Stone Molecular and Cellular Biology James Thomas Culbertson...
Sciences in Early Islam. Taylor & Francis. p. 220. ISBN 0-9608754-0-9. Gandz, Solomon (1936). "The Sources of al-Khwarizmi's Algebra". Osiris. 1: 264. doi:10...
Science Library, Princeton University Press, p. 122, ISBN 9780691005454 Gandz, Solomon (1940), "Studies in Babylonian mathematics. III. Isoperimetric problems...
Bibliotheca Hebraica Post-Mendelssohniana. Leipzig: K. F. Koehler. pp. 83–85. Gandz, Solomon (1952). "The Division of the Hour in Hebrew Literature". Osiris. 10:...
William Bright, eds., pp. 346–355. New York: Oxford University Press. Gandz, Solomon. 1933. Hebrew numerals. Proceedings of the American Academy of Jewish...
knowledge of all things." Qur'an, [Quran 4:176]. Surah An Nisa verse 5 Gandz, Solomon (1938). "The Algebra of Inheritance: A Rehabilitation of Al-Khuwarizmi"...
Factors Behind the Decline of Islamic Science After the Sixteenth Century Gandz, Solomon (1938), "The Algebra of Inheritance: A Rehabilitation of Al-Khuwārizmī"...
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