ABSTRACT
Yet the scientific culture Anthemius knew lived on, much of it in medieval Arabic material bearing a strong imprint of Greek mathematics, so much so that Arberry (1964) aptly describes medieval Arabic scholarship as 'the first renaissance of Greek learning'. The details of this influence are, however, less well-known, and my purpose in this paper is to survey what recent publications tell of the different ways in which Greek mathematics influenced the Arabic as well as how Arabic mathematics differentiated itself from that of the Greeks in ways that make it possible to speak of Islamic mathematics.2
