Yvonne Dold-Samplonius

Yvonne Dold-Samplonius (20 May 1937 – 16 June 2014) was a Dutch mathematician and historian who specialised in the history of Islamic mathematics during the Middle Ages.

Born on 20 May 1937 in Haarlem, Yvonne Samplonius obtained her degree in mathematics and Arabic from the University of Amsterdam (Doktoratsexamen) in 1966.

[1] In 1977 she was awarded a PhD for her analysis of the treatise Kitāb al-mafrādāt li Aqāţun (Book of Assumptions of Aqātun) under the supervision of Prof. Evert Marie Bruins and Prof. Juan Vernet.

[4] Through his work, she became interested in the geometrical calculations that helped with the building of many of the domes of palaces and mosques, called muqarnas, in the Arab world and Persia.

[7][10] From 1995, she was an associate member of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Scientific Computing (IWR) of the University of Heidelberg, with whom she has published several videos on Islamic geometrical art.