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Rabbi and mathematician
Abraham Joseph ben Simon Wolf Menz (
Yiddish : אברהם יוסף בן שמעון וואָלף מענץ ) was an eighteenth century
rabbi and
mathematician at
Frankfurt .
[1]
He wrote an elementary textbook on mathematics entitled Reshit Limmudim ,
[2] in three parts: Kelale handasah , the general rules of
algebra ; Yesodot ha-gematriot , the elements of
geometry ; and Yesod ha-tekunah , on
astronomy .
[3]
[4] Only the first part was published (Berlin, 1775).
[5]
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain : Deutsch, Gotthard; Levinson, S. J. (1901–1906).
"Menz, Abraham Joseph ben Simon Wolf" . In
Singer, Isidore ; et al. (eds.).
The Jewish Encyclopedia . New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
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Fuenn, Shmuel Yosef (1886).
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Steinschneider, Moritz (1852–60).
Catalogus Librorum Hebræorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana (in Latin). Berlin: A. Friedlaender. p. 702.
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Fürst, Julius (1863).
Bibliotheca Judaica: Bibliographisches Handbuch der gesammten jüdischen Literatur (in German). Vol. 2. Leipzig: Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann. p. 368.
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Zeitlin, William (1890).
"Menz, Abraham Joseph, Rabbiner in Frankfurt a/M" . Bibliotheca hebraica post-Mendelssohniana (in German). Leipzig: K. F. Koehler's Antiquarium. p. 238.
^ Deutsch, Gotthard; Levinson, S. J. (1901–1906).
"Menz, Abraham Joseph ben Simon Wolf" . In
Singer, Isidore ; et al. (eds.).
The Jewish Encyclopedia . New York: Funk & Wagnalls.