Prof. Dr. Jan P. Hogendijk is full professor in History of Mathematics at the University of Utrecht.

From 2009 to 2012 he was the president of the international commission on History of Science and Technology in Islamic civilizations.

In 2005 he received together with Prof. A.I. Sabra (Harvard University) the World Book of the Year award for Islamic Studies of the Islamic Republic of Iran. 

See www.jphogendijk.nl

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Lecture: Jan P. Hogendijk; Recovering the scientific contributions of Khwarizmi

Summary: Muhammad ibn-e Musa Khwarizmi lived in the beginning of the Islamic scientific tradition, when the influence of the earlier traditions of Greece, India and pre-Islamic Iran was still strong. Khwarizmi had an important influence on the later Islamic scientific tradition, but many of his own contributions have only come down to us indirectly or in revised form.

In the talk we will try to characterize his mathematical and astronomical work and discuss the question to what extent this can be recovered from the later sources that have come down to us.

In connection with this lecture, a webpage will be prepared on the contributions by Khwarizmi (which will be made available for download wherever possible) and the modern research literature