Biography:Abraham Niederländer
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Short description: Jewish-Austrian mathematician
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]
References
- ↑ Heller, Marvin J. (2011). The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book: An Abridged Thesaurus. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. p. 231. ISBN 978-90-04-18638-5. https://books.google.com/books?id=RPDSTS_QL4oC&pg=PA231.
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. The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11532-niederlander-abraham-ben-ephraim.
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