Jonas Rosenthal graduated from Dartmouth College in 2025 with a BA in Middle Eastern studies modified with mathematics. His senior honors thesis, “What Euclid Did Not Write: Non-Mathematical Influences on the Riddles of Ibn al-Bannaʾ al-Marrakushi's Tanbih al-Albab,” examined and translated the previously unstudied religious riddles of the prominent 14th century Maghribi mathematician and mystic, Ibn al-Bannaʾ al-Marrakushi. His research focuses on the intersection of mathematics, linguistics, theology, and identity among Jews, Muslims, and Christians in the manuscript tradition of the medieval Arab world.

Jonas received a Fulbright fellowship to pursue an MA in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in order to continue his research into the social and religious roots of mathematical development during the medieval Islamic period.