astro.wikisort.org - ResearcherIbrahim 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]
Arab mathematician and astronomer
Ibrahim ibn Sinan |
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Born | c. 908
Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate, now Iraq |
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Died | 946 (aged 38) |
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Occupation | Astronomer, mathematician |
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Era | Islamic Golden Age |
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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
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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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- The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing
- De Gradibus
- Principles of Hindu Reckoning
- Book of Optics
- The Book of Healing
- Almanac
- Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity
- Toledan Tables
- Tabula Rogeriana
- Zij
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- Alhazen's problem
- Islamic geometric patterns
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- Babylonian mathematics
- Greek mathematics
- Indian mathematics
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- Byzantine mathematics
- European mathematics
- Indian mathematics
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- Hindu–Arabic numeral system
- Arabic numerals (Eastern Arabic numerals, Western Arabic numerals)
- Trigonometric functions
- History of trigonometry
- History of algebra
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На других языках
- [en] Ibrahim ibn Sinan
[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.
[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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