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al-Samaw'al al-Maghribi

السموأل المغربي

Draft card for al-Samaw'al ibn Yahya al-Maghribi, the mathematician and physician who embraced Islam and wrote Ifham al-Yahud and al-Bahir in algebra, d. 1180; the history-of-science entry is not yet checked on the page.

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Roles
Scholar · writer
Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Persia & Central Asia
Identifiers
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Mathematics

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People and things also explored

Algebra (al-jabr)· Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani, Muhammad ibn Muhammad· Ahmad ibn Yusuf· Al-Badi' al-Astarlabi· al-Burshani Ibrahim ibn Muhammad· al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf ibn Matar· al-Khujandi Abu Mahmud Hamid ibn al-Khidr· al-Khwarizmi

Sources

  • Sezgin, Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums, vol. V: Mathematik bis ca. 430 H
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Algebra (al-jabr)

The branch of mathematics that solves problems with an unknown quantity by general methods. Al-Khwarizmi's book on al-jabr and al-muqabala is the text this record rests on; the editors of the 1939 Cairo edition place it first among the scientific books of their heritage.