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== About Mispar ==


Mispar is an open access MediaWiki research platform for the study of medieval Hebrew arithmetic. It provides annotated transcripts of almost all surviving Hebrew medieval arithmetic and algebraic treatises, as well as a few Hebrew geometric, Arabic and Judeo-Arabic treatises. The transcripts are organized into a peer-updatable database that includes English descriptions of the components of each treatise as well as search features that allow for comparing thematic components across all treatises.

The database offers the following pages: 
* [[Lexicon| Lexicon]] - a list of English mathematical terms, linking each term to examples of Hebrew equivalents in the database
* [[Terms| Terms]] - a list of Hebrew mathematical terms, linking each term to examples in the database
* [[Mathematical formula| Mathematical formulas]] - a list of modern mathematical expressions and formulas, linked to examples of equivalent expressions and formulas in the database
* [[Word Problems| Word problems]] - a list of types of word problems (following Van Egmond's classification), linked to examples in the database

''The Mispar database in still under construction. This means that some of the pages are undergoing editing, and that some of the information in the above pages is incomplete. The discussion page of each of the mathematical sources pages should specify the current editing stage of that source''

The databases and search capacities are based on the tailor-made [https://gitlab.ethz.ch/vermeul/YATA YATA semantic annotation system]. Users with editing privileges can use it to perform their own searches. Please note: the "search mispar" field at the top right of each page is a [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching#Search_facilities_in_MediaWiki default Wikimedia] search feature. It should find all pages with the relevant search terms, but not all occurrences of those terms. 

Mispar database is a service provided by ETH, Zürich. The initial version of the database is being prepared by Naomi Aradi.

Mispar is cooperating with the [https://www.peshat.org/ Peshat] project (Premodern Philosophic and Scientific Hebrew Terminology) to complete the documentation of medieval Hebrew mathematical terms in the Peshat database and link them to examples in the Mispar database. 

''This project is supported by the René & Susanne Braginsky Stiftung, Gedenkstiftung Rapaport, Stiftung zur Förderung der Mathematischen Wissenschaft in der Schweiz and the ETH Zürich Foundation''.

To contact us, please send an [mailto:roy.wagner@gess.ethz.ch email].