Abraham Niederländer
Abraham ben Ephraim Niederländer (Hebrew: אַבְרָהָם בֶּן אֶפְרַיִם נידרלנדר), also known as Abraham Sofer and the Sofer of Prague, was a sixteenth-century Jewish-Austrian mathematician.
The scribe of Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, Niederländer also published Brit Avraham (1609), a work on arithmetic based largely on Elijah Mizrachi's Sefer ha-Mispar as well as non-Jewish works on mathematics.[1]
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- ^ Heller, Marvin J. (2011). The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book: An Abridged Thesaurus. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. p. 231. ISBN 978-90-04-18638-5.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; Lauterbach, Jacob Zallel (1901–1906). "Niederländer, Abraham ben Ephraim". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
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