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Extending al-Karaji's Work on Sums of Odd Powers of Integers - References and Links to Biographies of al-Karaji

Author(s): 
Hakan Kursat Oral (Yildiz Technical University) and Hasan Unal (Yildiz Technical University)

References

Beery, Janet (2009). "Sums of Powers of Positive Integers," Loci: Convergence (February 2009), DOI: 10.4169/loci003284.
http://mathdl.maa.org/mathDL/46/?pa=content&sa=viewDocument&nodeId=3284

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O’Connor, J. J. and E. F. Robertson (1999). “Abu Bekr ibn Muhammad ibn al-Husayn Al-Karaji,” MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive (July 1999).
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Karaji.html

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Links to Biographies of al-Karaji

MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive: “Abu Bekr ibn Muhammad ibn al-Husayn Al-Karaji”
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Karaji.html

Muslim Heritage website: http://www.MuslimHeritage.com

Hakan Kursat Oral (Yildiz Technical University) and Hasan Unal (Yildiz Technical University), "Extending al-Karaji's Work on Sums of Odd Powers of Integers - References and Links to Biographies of al-Karaji," Convergence (August 2011), DOI:10.4169/loci003725