Abu Nasr Mansur

Abu Nasr Mansur أبو نصر منصور

Full Name: Abu Nasri Mansur ibn Ali ibn Iraq al-Jaʿdī.

Arabic: أبو نصر منصور بن علی بن عراق

Born: 960 AD.

Origin: Ghazni, Persia Now Afghanistan.

Died: 1036 A.D.

Famous for: His work with the spherical sine law.

Contributions:

Commentary on the Spherics by Menelaus.

He preserved the writings of Menelaus of Alexandria and reworked many of the Greeks theorems.

 

Articles

https://iranicaonline.org/articles/abu-nasr-mansur-b-1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Nasr_Mansur