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Abraham Niederländer

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Abraham ben Ephraim Niederländer (Hebrew: אַבְרָהָם בֶּן אֶפְרַיִם נידרלנדר), also known as Abraham Sofer and the Sofer of Prague, was a 16th-century Jewish-Austrian mathematician. The sofer of Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel, he also wrote Brit Avraham (1609), a work of Jewish arithmetic based largely on Elijah Mizrachi's Sefer ha-Mispar, as well as general mathematics books.[1]

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  1. ^ Heller, Marvin J. (2011). The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book: An Abridged Thesaurus. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. p. 231. ISBN 978-90-04-18638-5.