Abu Sahl al-Quhi

Abu Sahl al-Quhi ابوسهل بیژن ابن رستم کوهی

Full Name: Abu Sahl Wayjan ibn Rustam al-Kuhi.

Arabic: ابوسهل بیژن ابن رستم کوهی

Origin: Kuh (or Quh), an area in Tabaristan Persia, Iran.

Born: 940 AD.

Dies: 1,000 AD.

Famous for: Mathematician, Physicist and Astronomer.

Contribution:

Al-Quhi was the leader of the astronomers working in 988 AD at the observatory built by the Buwayhid amir Sharaf al-Dawla in Badhdad

Inscribing an equilateral pentagon into a square, resulting in a fourth degree equation

Articles

https://ismi.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/person/50990

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Sahl_al-Quhi

https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Quhi/

https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/quhi-or-al-kuhi-abu-sahl-wayjan-ibn-rustam-al

http://nataatmadja.blogspot.com/2015/06/940-c-1000-abu-sahl-wayjan-ibn-rustam.html

https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/al-quh

https://handwiki.org/wiki/Biography:Ibn_Sahl_(mathematician)