Abu al-Wafa al-Buzjani

Abu al-Wafa al-Buzjani

Full Name: Abu al-Wafa Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Ismail ibn al-Abbas al-Buzjani or Abu al-Wafa Buzhjani

Arabic: ابو الوفا بوزجانی

Born: 940 AD

Origin: Buzjan, Iran

Dies: 998 AD

Famous for: Mathematician and Astronomer

Contribution:

Negative numbers in a medieval Islamic text

Innovations in spherical trigonometry

First to build wall quadrant to observe the sky

He defined the tangent function

Articles

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