Sharaf al-Din al-Tusi

Sharaf al-Din al-Tusi شرف‌الدین التوسی

Al-Tusi has been credited with proposing the idea of a function in Mathematics.

Full Name: Sharaf al-Dīn al-Muẓaffar ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Muẓaffar al-Ṭūsī.

Other Names: Sharaf al-Din al-Tusi

Arabic: شرف‌الدین مظفر بن محمد بن مظفر توسی

Born: 1135 AD.

Died: 1213 AD.

Origin: Tus, Iran.

Famous for: Mathematicians.

Legacy: The main-belt asteroid 7058 Al-Ṭūsī, discovered by Henry E. Holt at Palomar Observatory in 1990, was named in his honor.

Contributions: 

He developed a novel method for determining the conditions under which certain types of cubic equations would have two, one, or no solutions.

Sharaf al-Din invented a linear astrolabe, sometimes called the “Staff of Tusi”. While it was easier to construct and was known in al-Andalus.

Articles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharaf_al-Din_al-Tusi

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

https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/al-tusi-sharaf-al-din-al-muzaffar-ibn-muhammad-ibn-al-muzaffar

Books attributed to Sharaf al-Din al-Tusi: