Abstract Mathematical commentaries in Arabic and Persian have come down to us in abundant numbers and manifoldness. There is no study of them as a literary genre, their distribution over time, space, or topic, nor of their forms or styles. The commentaries that have been scrutinized so far are few in number and focusing in topic mostly on geometry and in scope on those with innovative contributions. In this paper, I will try to survey more generally purposes, forms, and styles of mathematical commentaries based on a larger number of texts with different thematic content and range and produced in different contexts, periods, and localities.

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阿拉伯语和波斯语数学评论——目的、形式和风格

摘要 阿拉伯语和波斯语的数学评论数量众多，种类繁多。没有研究它们作为一种文学体裁，它们在时间、空间或主题上的分布，也没有研究它们的形式或风格。迄今为止，经过仔细审查的评论数量很少，并且主要集中在几何学和范围上具有创新贡献的评论。在本文中，我将尝试基于大量不同主题内容和范围并产生于不同语境、时期和地域的文本，更广泛地考察数学评论的目的、形式和风格。