Al-Hasan ibn Musa

Al-Hasan ibn Musa أحمد بن موسى

Full Name: Al-Ḥasan ibn Mūsā ibn Shākir.

Arabic: أبو جعفر أحمد بن موسى بن شاكر

Other Names: Banū Mūsá, Ahmad ibn Mūsá, Abū al‐Qāsim

Origin: Baghdad, Iraq.

Born: 810 AD.

Death: 873 AD.

Famous for: Mathematician and Astronomer.

Contribution:

Kitab al-Hiyal al-Naficah (“The Book of Ingenious Devices”).

Kitāb Maʿrifah masāḥat al-ashkāl al-basīṭah wa-al-kuriyyah (“Book on the Measurement of Plane and Spherical Figures”).

Articles

https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Banu_Musa_al-Hasan/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban%C5%AB_M%C5%ABs%C4%81_brothers

Books attributed to Al-Hasan ibn Musa

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