Al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar

(786–833 Common Era, CE) was a mathematician and translator.

Biography

Almost nothing is known about his life, except that he was active in Baghdad, then the capital of the ʿAbbāsid Empire.

He was the first author who translated Euclid's ''Euclid's Elements, Elements'' from Greek language, Greek into Arabic. His first translation was made for Yaḥyā ibn Khālid, the Vizier of Caliph Hārūn al‐Rashīd. He made a second, improved, more concise translation for the Caliph al-Maʾmūn (813–833). Around 829, he translated Ptolemy's ''Almagest'', which at that time had also been translated by Hunayn Ibn Ishaq and .

At the beginning of the 12th century Common Era, CE, Adelard of Bath translated 's version of Euclid's ''Elements'' into Latin.

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Greek–Arabic translators
Mathematicians from the Abbasid Caliphate
786 births
833 deaths
9th-century mathematicians
9th-century astronomers

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