Category: Muslim Mathematician

Contribution of eminent Muslims, who developed different fields of Mathematics through research.

Al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar الحجّاج بن يوسف بن مطر

November 13, 2024 By Post Off

Full Name: Al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar. Arabic: الحجّاج بن يوسف بن مطر Born: 786AD. Died: 833 AD. Origin: Baghdad Famous for: Mathematician and Translator. Contributions: He was the first author who translated Euclid’s Elements from Greek into Arabic. Articles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-%E1%B8%A4ajj%C4%81j_ibn_Y%C5%ABsuf_ibn_Ma%E1%B9%ADar https://www.britannica.com/biography/al-Hajjaj-ibn-Yusuf-ibn-Matar https://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Hajjaj_ibn_Yusuf_ibn_Matar_BEA.htm Books attributed to Al-Hajjaj

Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī كمال‌الدين فارسی

July 20, 2024 By Post Off

Farisi was a pupil of the astronomer and mathematician Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi, who in turn was a pupil of Nasir al-Din Tusi. Full Name: Kamal al-Din Hasan ibn Ali ibn Hasan al-Farisi . Arabic: كمال‌الدين فارسی Other Names: Abu Hasan Muhammad ibn Hasan. Born: 1267 AD. Died: 1319 AD. Origin: Persia. Famous for: Mathmetician, Physician.…

Abu ‘Ubayd al-Juzjani أبو عبيد عبد الواحد بن محمد الجوزجاني

July 14, 2024 By Post Off

Full Name: Abū ʿUbayd ʿAbd al‐Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad al‐Jūzjānī. Arabic: أبو عبيد عبد الواحد بن محمد الجوزجاني Born: Died: 1070AD. Origin: Guzgan, Persia. Famous for: Astronomer and Mathematician. Contributions: He aided Ibn Sīnā with the compilation of the Cure (al‐Shifāʾ). Added the sections on geometry, arithmetic, astronomy, and music from Ibn Sīnā’s earlier works to…

Jamshid al-Kashi جمشید الکاشانی

July 13, 2024 By Post Off

Jamshid al-Kashi is considered as one of the greatest persian mathmetician and astronomer of his times. Full Name: Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd Masʿūd al-Kāshī (or al-Kāshānī). Arabic: غیاث الدین جمشید کاشانی Born: 1380AD. Died: 1429AD. Origin: Kashan, Iran. Famous for: Astronomer and Mathematician. Contributions: Al-Kashi invented the Plate of Conjunctions, an analog computing instrument used to…

Abu Zayd al-Balkhi ابو زید احمد بن سهل بلخی

July 11, 2024 By Post Off

Al-Balkhi is believed to have been the first to diagnose that mental illness can have psychological and physiological causes. Full Name: Abu Zayd Ahmed ibn Sahl Balkhi . Arabic: ابو زید احمد بن سهل بلخی Born: 850 AD. Died: 934 AD. Origin: Shamistiyan, Balkh, Khorasan (modern day northern Afghanistan). Famous for: Geographer, Mathematician, Physician, Psychologist…

Ulugh Beg الغ‌ بیگ

July 10, 2024 By Post Off

Full Name: Mīrzā Muhammad Tāraghay bin Shāhrukh . Arabic: میرزا محمد طارق بن شاہ رخ Other Names: Ulugh Beg Born: 1394 AD. Died: 1449 AD. Origin: Sultaniyeh, Timurid Empire (now Zanjan Province, Iran). Famous for: Astronomer and Mathematician. Contributions: He built the great Ulugh Beg Observatory in Samarkand between 1424 and 1429. He built the…

Ali Qushji علي قوشجي

July 10, 2024 By Post Off

Full Name: Ala al-Dīn Ali ibn Muhammed . Arabic: علاء الدين علي بن محمد Other Names: Ulugh Beg Born: 1403 AD. Died: 1474 AD. Origin: Samarkand, Timurid Empire (now Uzbekistan). Famous for: Astronomer and Mathematician. Contributions: The founding of Sahn-ı Seman Medrese, one of the first centers for the study of various traditional Islamic sciences…

al-Kindi الكندي

July 10, 2024 By Post Off

Al-Kindi was also one of the fathers of cryptography, introduced several new methods of breaking ciphers, notably frequency analysis. Full Name: Abū Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ al-Kindī . Other Names: al-Kindi, Alkindus Arabic: أبو يوسف يعقوب بن إسحاق الصبّاح الكندي Born: c. 801 . Died: c. 873 . Origin: Kufa, Abbasid Caliphate (now in…

Ibn al-Shatir ابن الشاطر

July 10, 2024 By Post Off

Full Name: Abu al-Ḥasan Alāʾ al‐Dīn bin Alī bin Ibrāhīm bin Muhammad bin al-Matam al-Ansari. Other Names: Ibn al-Shatir or Ibn ash-Shatir. Arabic: ابن الشاطر Born: 1304AD. Died: 1375 AD. Origin: Damascus, Syria. Famous for: Astronomer, Mathematician, and Engineer. Contributions: Constructed a sundial for minaret of Umayyad Mosque in Damascus in 1371/72. Ibn al-Shatir also…

Shams al-Din al-Samarqandi

July 8, 2024 By Post Off

Al-Samarqandī is known as mathematicians for his famous tract Kitāb Ashkāl al-ta’sīs (“Book on the Fundamental Theorems”). Full Name: Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ashraf al-Ḥusaynī al-Samarqandī. Arabic: شمس الدین سمرقندی Born: 1250 AD. Died: 1310 AD. Origin: Samarkand, now in Uzbekistan. Famous for: Astronomer and Mathematician. Contributions: He wrote Synopsis of Astronomy, and produced a…