Ibn al-Majdi
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Ibn al‐Majdī | |
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Born | 1359 |
Died | 27 January 1447 (aged 88) |
Occupation(s) | Astronomer, mathematician, engineer, grammarian, faqih, calenders |
Era | Mamluk era (Islamic Golden Age) |
Ahmad bin Rajab bin Taibugha al-Majdī al-ala’i bin Abdullah Shihāb al‐Dīn Abu al-Abbas (Egyptian Arabic: أحمد بن رجب بن طيبغا المجدي العلائي بن عبد الله شهاب الدين أبو العباس; 1359–1447 CE) was an Egyptian mathematician and astronomer. His most important mathematical work was "Book of Substance", a voluminous commentary on the Summary of the Operations of Calculations by Ibn al-Banna'.[1]
References
- ^ Chabert, Jean-Luc (1999). A History of Algorithms: From the Pebble to the Microchip. Springer. p. 497. ISBN 3540633693.
External links
- Charette, François (2007). "Ibn al‐Majdī: Shihāb al‐Dīn Abū al‐ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Rajab ibn Ṭaybughā al‐Majdī al‐Shāfiʿī". In Thomas Hockey; et al. (eds.). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. New York: Springer. pp. 561–2. ISBN 9780387310220. (PDF version)
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- 15th-century astronomers
- Medieval Egyptian astronomers
- 15th-century mathematicians
- Medieval Egyptian mathematicians
- 1359 births
- 1447 deaths
- Scientists from Cairo
- Mathematicians who worked on Islamic inheritance