Contribution of eminent Muslims, who developed different fields of Mathematics through research.
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…
Full Name: Abu Jafar Muhammad ibn Husayn Khazin Arabic: ابوجعفر خازن خراسانی Born: 900 AD Origin: Khurasan, Iran Dies: 971 AD Famous for: Mathematician and Astronomer Contribution: Astronomical instruments, in particular an astrolabe fitted with plates inscribed with tables Articles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ja%27far_al-Khazin https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Khazin/ https://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Khazin_BEA.htm https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/al-khazin-ab
Full Name: Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Jabir ibn Sinan al-Raqqi al-Harrani as-Sabi al-Battani Arabic: محمد بن جابر بن سنان البتاني Latin: Albategnius, Albategni or Albatenius Born: 858 AD Origin: Haran Turkey / Raqqa, now in Syria Dies: 929 AD Famous for: Mathematician, Astronomer, and Astrologer Contribution: The first of a generation of new Islamic astronomers…
Full Name: Abul-Abbas al-Fadl ibn Hatim al-Nairizi Arabic: أبو العباس الفضل بن حاتم النيريزي Born: 865 AD Origin: Nayriz, now in Fars Province, Iran Dies: 922 AD Famous for: Mathematician and Astronomer Contribution: Gave a mathematical proof of the parallel postulate Exact method for the numerical determination of the Qibla Articles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Nayrizi https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Nayrizi/ https://dbpedia.org/page/Al-Nayrizi
Full Name: Abu Said al-Dharir al-Jurjani Arabic: ابو سعيد الضرير الجرجاني Origin: Persia, Iran Dies: 9th century Famous for: Mathematician and Astronomer Contribution: Geometrical problems The drawing of the meridian Articles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Said_Gorgani
Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Fazari Philosopher, mathematician and Astronomer of 8th century. Full Name: Abu-Abdullah Muhammad ibn Isa Mahani Arabic: ابوعبدالله محمد بن عیسی ماهانی Origin: Mahan in today Kerman, Iran Dies: 880 AD Famous for: Mathematician and Astronomer Contribution: Commentaries on Euclid’s Elements Archimedes’ On the Sphere and Cylinder The calculation of azimuths Articles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Mahani…
Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Fazari Philosopher, mathematician and Astronomer of 8th century. Full Name: Abul-Hasan Ali ibn Muḥammad ibn Ali al-Qurashi al-Qalasadi Arabic: أبو الحسن علي بن محمد بن علي القرشي البسطي Born: 1412AD Origin: Al Andalus Spain Dies: 1486 AD Famous for: Mathematician Contribution: al-Qalasadi represented mathematical symbols using characters from the Arabic alphabet Articles…
Abd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣūfī عبدالرحمن الصوفی December 903 – 25 May 986) was an Iranian astronomer. His work Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib (“The Book of Fixed Stars”), written in 964, included both textual descriptions and illustrations. The Persian polymath Al-Biruni wrote that al-Ṣūfī’s work on the ecliptic was carried out in Shiraz. Al-Ṣūfī lived at the Buyid…
Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi was a astronomer, geographer, and mathematician of 9th century Full Name: Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi Arabic: حبش الحاسب المروزي Born: 766 AD Origin: Iran (Persia) Merv in Khorasan Dies: 869 AD Famous for: Astronomy Contribution: Al-Hasib conducted various observations at the Al-Shammisiyyah observatory in Baghdad and estimated a number of geographic and astronomical…
Sind ibn Ali was a ninth-century astronomer, translator, mathematician and engineer. Full Name: Abu al-Tayyib Sanad ibn Ali. Arabic: أبو الطيب سند بن علي Origin: Sanad ibn Ali was either an Iraqi Jewish or Sindhi from Mansura, capital of Arab Sindh. Dies: 864 AD Famous for: Astronomy and Mathemmatics Contribution: Translated and modified the Zij…
