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Ibrahim ibn Sinan (Arabic: Ibrāhīm ibn Sinān ibn Thābit ibn Qurra, ابراهيم بن سنان بن ثابت بن قرة; born 295-296 AH/c. 908 AD in Baghdad, died: 334-335 AH/946 AD in Baghdad, aged 38) was a mathematician and astronomer belonging to a family of scholars who originally hailed from Harran in northern Mesopotamia. He was the son of Sinan ibn Thabit (c. 880–943) and the grandson of Thābit ibn Qurra (c. 830–901).[1] Like his grandfather, he belonged to a religious sect of star worshippers known as the Sabians of Harran.[2]

Ibrahim ibn Sinan
Born	c. 908 Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate, now Iraq
Died	946 (aged 38)
Occupation	Astronomer, mathematician
Era	Islamic Golden Age
Parent	Sinan ibn Thabit ibn Qurra (father)

He also studied geometry, in particular tangents to circles.[3][1] He made advances in the quadrature of the parabola and the theory of integration, generalizing the work of Archimedes, which was unavailable at the time.[3][1] He is often referenced as one of the most important mathematicians of his time.[3]

See also

• Category:Sabian Scholars of the Abbasid Caliphate

Notes

Further reading

• Rashed, Roshdi (1996). Les Mathématiques Infinitésimales du IXe au XIe Siècle 1: Fondateurs et commentateurs: Banū Mūsā, Ibn Qurra, Ibn Sīnān, al-Khāzin, al-Qūhī, Ibn al-Samḥ, Ibn Hūd. London. Reviews: Seyyed Hossein Nasr (1998) in Isis 89 (1) pp. 112-113; Charles Burnett (1998) in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 61 (2) p. 406.
• Rashed, Roshdi (2008) [1970-80]. "Ibrahim Ibn Sinan". Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Encyclopedia.com.
• Roberts, Alexandre M. (2017). "Being a Sabian at Court in Tenth-Century Baghdad". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 137 (2): 253–277. doi:10.17613/M6GB8Z.
• Van Brummelen, Glen (2007). "Ibrāhīm ibn Sinān ibn Thābit ibn Qurra". In Thomas Hockey; et al. (eds.). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. New York: Springer. p. 574. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_697. ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0. (PDF version)

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- [en] Ibrahim ibn Sinan

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[it] Ibrahim ibn Sinan

Ibrāhīm ibn Sinān b. Thābit b. Qurra (in arabo: ابراهيم بن سنان بن ثابت بن قرة‎; Baghdad, 908 – Baghdad, 946) è stato un astronomo e matematico arabo musulmano iracheno.

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[ru] Ибн Синан

Абу Исхак Ибрахим ибн Синан ибн Сабит ибн Корра (908, Багдад — 946, Багдад) — известный математик арабского Халифата, внук Сабита ибн Корры. Вместе с отцом формально принял ислам. Подвергался гонениям по подозрению в приверженности к религии сабиев.

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