The Translators: "Stayin' Alive" in the Middle Ages

Boethius, Hunayn, Thabit ibn Qurra, Hildegarde von Bingen

Jiushao, Johann Müller of Königsberg

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Boethius
Born 480 in or near Rome, Italy; Died: 524 in Pavia, Italy
"The science of numbers ought to be preferred as an acquisition before all others, because of its necessity and because of the great secrets and other mysteries which there are in the properties of numbers. All sciences partake of it, and it has need of none.  Quoted in The History of Mathematics: a Reader (London 1987)"

Boethius Bio Info   http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Boethius.html

Alcuin of York
735 in York, Yorkshire, England  Died: 19 May 804 in Tours, France
"In the morning, at the height of my powers, I sowed the seed in Britain, now in the evening when my blood is growing cold I am still sowing in France, hoping both will grow, by the grace of God, giving some the honey of the holy scriptures, making others drunk on the old wine of ancient learning... "
Alcuin Bio Info  http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Alcuin.html

About 775 Alcuin of York writes elementary texts on arithmetic, geometry and astronomy. http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Chronology/500_900.html#775

Abu Zayd Hunayn ibn Ishaq al-Ibadi (Hunayn)
Born: 808 in al-Hirah Died: 873 in Baghdad (now in Iraq)
Arabic Mathematics: Forgotten Brilliance?  hhttp://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Arabic_mathematics.html#15

Abu Zayd Hunayn ibn Ishaq al-Ibadi Bio Info   http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Hunayn.html

Thabit ibn Qurra
Born: 826 in Harran, Mesopotamia (now Turkey)
Died: 18 Feb 901 in Baghdad, (now in Iraq) in Baghdad (now in Iraq)
Thabit ibn Qurra (Tabit Qorra) Bio Info   http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Thabit.html
Qin Jiushao
1202 -1261 in Meizhou (now Meixian), Guangtong province, China
Qin Jushao Bio Info  http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Qin_Jiushao.html
Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art  http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Nine_chapters.html
Johann Müller of Königsberg
Johann Müller Regiomontanus Bio Info  http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Regiomontanus.html

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