Abu al-Fath Mahmud ibn Muhammad ibn Qasim ibn Fadl al-Isfahani , Latinized ๐๐๐๐ฅ๐ฉ๐ก๐๐ญ๐ฎ๐ฌ, ๐๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ก๐๐ก๐๐ง๐๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ, was a 10th-century
Persian
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* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
On ...
. He flourished probably around 982 AD in
Isfahan
Isfahan ( fa, ุงุตููุงู, Esfahรขn ), from its Achaemenid empire, ancient designation ''Aspadana'' and, later, ''Spahan'' in Sassanian Empire, middle Persian, rendered in English as ''Ispahan'', is a major city in the Greater Isfahan Regio ...
.
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 1โ4) and
Thabit ibn Qurra (books 5โ7).
See also
*
List of Iranian scientists
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References
Sources
*H. Suter: Die Mathematiker und Astronomen der Araber (98, 1900).
10th-century Iranian mathematicians
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