Al-Isfahani
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Abu-l-Fath Mahmud ibn Mohammed ibn Qasim ibn Fadl al-Isfahani was a 10th century Persian mathematician.
He flourished probably around 982AD in Isfahan.
He gave a better Arabic edition of the Conics of Apollonius and commented on the first books.
The Conics had been translated a century before by Hilal al-Himsi (books 1-4) and Thabit ibn Qurra (books 5-7).
Sources
- H. Suter: Die Mathematiker und Astronomen der Araber (98, 1900).
See also
Categories: Persian mathematicians | 10th century mathematicians | Iranian scientists | Muslim Scientists | Mathematician stubs
