A brief History of Logic: Medieval and Arabic Logic | Math Foundations 253 | N J Wildberger

We examine how Aristotle's work on logic came to dominate both medieval and Arabic work on the subject. An important contributor to this development was Boethius (477-524 A.D) who translated Aristotle and made commentary on it.

While the Dark Ages in Europe was not conducive to scientific or mathematical thought, the Islamic scholars based in Baghdad, Persia, Uzbekistan, and other places took up ancient Greek work as well as Hindu arithmetic, and developed both further.  Included in these were thinkers al-Kindi and Avicenna, who explored modes of logic statements. Along similar lines, medieval logicians explored variants and more subtle aspects of Aristotle's logic, including Peter Abelard, William of Ockham and Jean Buridan.

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