Sinān ibn al-Fatḥ was an Arab

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Ḥarrān Harran (), historically known as Carrhae ( el, Kάρραι, Kárrhai), is a rural town and district of the Şanlıurfa Province in southeastern Turkey, approximately 40 kilometres (25 miles) southeast of Urfa and 20 kilometers from the border ...

, who probably lived in the first half of the 10th century.Fuat Sezgin. ''Geschite des Arabischen Schrifttums - Band V: Mathematik''. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1974. Ibn an-Nadīm lists the following works of his: # ''Kitāb at-Taḫt fi l-ḥisāb al-hindī'' ("Book of the Table on the Indian Calculation") # ''Kitāb al-Ğamʿ wa-t-tafrīq'' ("Book of Addition and Subtraction") # ''Kitāb Šarḥ al-Ğamʿ wa-t-tafrīq'' ("Commentary on the Book of Addition and Subtraction") # ''Kitāb Ḥisāb al-mukaʿʿabāt'' ("Book on the Cubic Calculation") # ''Kitāb Šarḥ al-ğabr wa-l-muqābala li-l-Ḫwārizmī'' ("Commentary on the Book of Balancing and Restoration by al-Ḫwārizmī")

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ibn Al-Fath, Sinan 10th-century mathematicians Year of death unknown Year of birth unknown People from Harran Mathematicians of the medieval Islamic world 10th-century Arabs