Levi Ben Gershom and the Study of Ibn Rushd in the Fourteenth Century

Glasner, Ruth

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“…Although Glasner [13] argues convincingly for a school of Levi, and identifies possible students, there is no direct evidence that there were students of Maaseh Hoshev. I argued earlier for the possibility of students being involved in the writing of the second edition, but the only direct evidence for this is the omission of Levi's name from the second edition colophon.…”

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“…However, it is also possible that he wanted to give credit to students who may have helped in the editing process. Glasner's work [13] implying a school of Levi's students would support this possibility.…”

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“…If one takes a fraction of a given product, and then a fraction of the remainder, and continues arbitrarily, then the final remainder will be the same no matter in what order the fractions were taken. (13) 19. The number of terms in the sum 1 + 2 + · · · + n is equal to the number of 1s in n. (14) 20.…”

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Rabbi Levi ben Gershom (1288–1344) is an important Jewish philosopher of the Middle Ages who lived almost a century after Moses Maimonides. More than any of his predecessors, he is known for advocating a form of Aristotelian Judaism, which synthesizes reason and faith and counters the relative skepticism of Maimonides. Describing God and the universe as perfectly ordered and teleological, this led him to conclude that God does not know particulars as particulars, but particulars as universals. Although he viewed the interpretation of the stars as providing some guidance for individuals, he believed that human beings are endowed with the freedom to strive for preservation of the body and immortality of the soul. In his conception, the Torah's laws and narratives are God's providential gift to humanity, which guides them to more easily achieve these two goals.

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The Missing Problems of Gersonides—A Critical Edition, II

Simonson

2000

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Gersonides' Maaseh Hoshev (The Art of Calculation) is a major work known for its early use of rigorous combinatorial proofs and mathematical induction. There is a large section of problems at the end of the book, with the theme of proportions, which until now remained unpublished. I present a critical edition of this material. I also uncover a previously unknown second edition of Maaseh Hoshev. The material is appropriate for creative pedagogy and provides economic details of the author's culture and environs. A previous article presented the first, 15 problems and this article presents the rest. C 2000 Academic Press Le Maase Hoshev (L'Art du Calcul) de Gersonide est un ouvrage majeur connu pour son usage précoce de preuves combinatoires rigoreuses et de l'induction mathématique. La fin de l'ouvrage comporte une section importante consacrée a une série de trente problèmes sur le thème des proportions quiétait restée inédite jusqu'à ce jour et dont je présente pour la première fois uneédition critique. Je révèleégalement l'éxistence d'une sécondeédition de Maase Hoshev. Le matériau peut servir de basè a des projets de pédagogie créative et offre des détails sur la culture et l'environnement de l'auteur. Cet article fait suite a une premièreétude qui présentait les quinze premiers problèmes de Maase Hoshev et en présente les quinze autres. C

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Levi Ben Gershom and the Study of Ibn Rushd in the Fourteenth Century

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