Arabic Mathematics

Mathematicians

• Banu Musa (sons of Musa ibn Shakir) (ninth century)
• al-Hajjaj ibn Matar (c. 800)
• Muhammad ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi (c. 780-c. 850)
• Hunayn ibn Ishaq (Johannitius) (808-873)
• `Abd al-Hamid ibn Turk (c. 850)
• Ahmad ibn `Abdullah al-Marwazi Habas al-Hasib (c. 850)
• Thabit ibn Qurra (836 -901)
• al-Fadl al-Nayrizi (c. 880)
• Abu Kamil ibn Aslam (c. 850-930)
• Qusta ibn Luka (d. 912)
• Abu `Abdallah Mohammad ibn Jabir al-Battani (Albatenius) (c. 858-929)
• Abu Nasr al-Farabi (Alpharabius) (c. 878-c. 950)
• Ibrahim ibn Sinan (909-946)
• Abu Sahl al-Kuhi (c. 950)
• Abu l'Hasan al-Uqlidisi (c. 952)
• `Abd al-`Aziz al-Qabisi (c. 950)
• Muhammad Abu l'Wafa (Albuzjani) (940-998)
• Abd al-Jalil al-Sijzi (c. 970)
• Abu `Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) (c. 965-1039)
• Abu l-Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni (973-1055)
• Abu Bakr al-Karaji (al Karkhi) (c. 1000)
• Abu `Abdallah al-Hasan ibn al-Baghdadi (c. 1000)
• Kushyar ibn Labban (c. 1000)
• Maslama al-Majriti (c. 1000)
• Abu Nasr Mansur ibn Iraq (d. 1030)
• Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi (c. 1025)
• `Abd al-Rahman al-Khazini (c. 1150)
• Abu-l-Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Rushd (Averroes) (1126-1198)
• Ibn Yahya al-Samaw'al (1125-1180)
• Sharaf al-Din at-Tusi (c. 1175)
• Nasir al-Din at-Tusi (1201-1274)
• Muhammad al-Khalili (c. 1250)
• ibn al-Banna (1256-1321)
• Ghiyath al-Din al-Kashi (d. 1429)
• Ulugh Beg (1394-1449)

Sources

• Library of Congress Vatican Exhibit: Mathematics: Greek Astronomy includes a work of Nasir al-Din at-Tusi.

Bibliography

• J. L. Berggren. Episodes in the mathematics of Medieval Islam. Springer-Verlag, New-York, 1986.
• Butzer, P. L., and D. Lohmann.
  Science in Western and Eastern civilization in Carolingian times. Birkhauser, Boston, 1993.
• Ali Abdullah al-Daffa. The Muslim contribution to mathematics. Croom Helm, London, 1977.
• Ali Abdullah al-Daffa and J.J. Stroyls. Studies in the exact sciences in medieval Isalm. Wiley, New York, 1984.
• Ibn Lablan, Kushyar. Principles of Hindu Reckoning. Univ. Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1966.
• Kennedy, E. S. (Edward Stewart)
  Studies in the Islamic exact sciences. American University of Beirut, Beirut, 1983.
• Nasr, Seyyed Hossein Science and civilization in Islam. New American Library, New York, 1968.
• O'Leary, De Lacy Evans. How Greek science passed to the Arabs. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1949.

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