Jeffrey A. Oaks
Professor of Mathematics
University of Indianapolis
oaks@uindy.edu
317-788-3454
Research Interests
- Jeff's Date Nail Page
- My Date Nails and Railroad Tie Preservation (560 p., 1999)
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Volume I
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Volume II
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Volume III
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Books by Rolland Meyers:
- Date Nails Photo-Upgrade (175 p., 2016) - This is an update to Volume III of my book.
- Canadian Date Nails (53 p., 2015)
- Letter & Letter/Date Nails (109 p., 2016)
- Hubbard Nails (183 p., 2017)
- Date Nails of Australia and New Zealand (43 p., 2018)
- My Date Nails and Railroad Tie Preservation (560 p., 1999)
- My response to an article on railroad tie preservation
Calendar of Roman events - A great resource when you don’t know what to write for someone’s birthday.
Articles
I have placed on this website the following articles:
Jens Høyrup, “Oxford" and "Cremona": On the relation between two versions of al-Khwarizmi’s Algebra”. Pp. 159-183 in: Actes du 3me Colloque Maghrébin sur l’Histoire des Mathématiques Arabes, Tipaza (Alger, Algérie), 1-3 Décembre 1990, vol. II. Alger: Association Algérienne d’Histoire des Mathématiques, 1998. The published version contains many errors, thus I have put Høyrup’s version here. Unfortunately the diagrams are lacking in this file.
I wrote the remaining articles:
- Was al-Khwārizmī an applied algebraist?” (1999) This is a terrible article I wrote before I began studying Arabic algebra seriously. I only keep it here because it is now on other people’s sites, and I want to maintain a smidgen of control over it.
- “Response to Jens Høyrup” (2010). My response to Høyrup’s answer to my review of his book Jacopo da Firenze’s Tractatus Algorizmi and Early Italian Abbacus Culture.
- “Geometry and proof in Abū Kāmil’s algebra”. Pp. 234-256 in: Actes du 10ème Colloque Maghrébin sur l’Histoire des Mathématiques Arabes (Tunis, 29-30-31 mai 2010). Tunis: L’Association Tunisienne des Sciences Mathématiques, 2011. I include this and my 2018 article below on my website because these publications are difficult to locate.
My translation and commentary of the worked-out problems in al-Khwārizmī’s Algebra:
- “Al-Khwārizmī’s worked-out problems” (translation, 2012)
- “The series of problems in al-Khwārizmī’s Algebra” (commentary, 2012)
- These were written in connection with HASTEC's online Carnet de Recherche.
- “Arithmetical proofs in Arabic algebra”. Pp. 215-238 in: Ezzaim Laabid, ed., Actes du 12è Colloque Maghrébin sur l'Histoire des Mathématiques Arabes: Marrakech 26 au 28 mai 2016. Marrakech: École Normale Supérieure, 2018.