Tony Lévy
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French mathematician
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Mathematics
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Number Theory
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Group Theory
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Algebra
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Why Is Tony Lévy Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Tony Lévy is an historian of mathematics, specializing particularly in Hebrew mathematics. His family left Egypt in 1957 for Belgium and France after the Suez Crisis but his elder brother Eddy Levy remained in Egypt. A political activist, the latter converted to Islam and took the name Adel Rifaat. He would join France in the 80s and form with Bahgat Elnadi the binomial of political scientists and scholars of Islam known under the pseudonym Mahmoud Hussein. His other brother is the activist, philosopher and writer Benny Levy. Like his younger brother Benny, Tony was an extreme left militant in the 1960s and 1970s.
Tony Lévy's Published Works
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Published Works
- The Establishment of the Mathematical Bookshelf of the Medieval Hebrew Scholar: Translations and Translators (1997) (44)
- Hebrew and Latin Versions of an Unknown Mathematical Text by Abraham Ibn Ezra (2011) (8)
- Sefer ha-Middot : A Mid-Twelfth-Century Text on Arithmetic and Geometry Attributed to Abraham Ibn Ezra (2006) (7)
- A Newly-Discovered Partial Hebrew Version of al-Khwārizmī's Algebra (2002) (5)
- Arabic Algebra in Hebrew Texts (1). An Unpublished Work by Isaac ben Salomon al-Aḥdab (14th Century) (2003) (4)
- Mathematics in the Midrash Ha-Ḥokhmah of Judah ben Solomon Ha-Cohen (2000) (3)
- Hero of Alexandria and Mordekhai Komtino: The Encounter between Mathematics in Hebrew and the Greek Metrological Corpus in Fifteenth-Century Constantinople (2018) (2)
- Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures: The Hebrew Mathematics Culture (Twelfth–Sixteenth Centuries) (2012) (1)
- Ruth Glasner. Gersonides: A Portrait of a Fourteenth-Century Philosopher-Scientist. xii + 139 pp., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. £30 (cloth). (2017) (0)
- Mathematics of the Hebrew People (2008) (0)
- Immanuel ben Jacob of Tarascon (Fourteenth Century) and Archimedean Geometry: An Alternative Proof for the Area of a Circle (2012) (0)
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