Ibn al-Majdi
Ibn al‐Majdī | |
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| Born | 1359 Cairo, Mamluk Sultanate, now Egypt |
| Died | 27 January 1447 (aged 88) Cairo, Mamluk Sultanate, now Egypt |
| Occupation | Astronomer, Mathematician |
| Era | Mamluk era (Islamic Golden Age) |
Shihāb al‐Dīn ibn al‐Majdī (Arabic: شهاب الدين بن المجدي; 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)
Categories:
- Astronomers of medieval Islam
- 15th-century astronomers
- Medieval Egyptian astronomers
- Mathematicians of medieval Islam
- 15th-century mathematicians
- Medieval Egyptian mathematicians
- Medieval Arab astronomers
- Medieval Arab mathematicians
- 1359 births
- 1447 deaths
- People from Cairo
- Mathematicians who worked on Islamic inheritance