Sinān ibn al-Fatḥ was an Arab

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Ḥarrān Harran is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district of Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. Its area is 904 km2, and its population is 96,072 (2022). It is approximately southeast of Urfa and from the Syrian border crossing at Akçakale. ...

, 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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10th-century mathematicians Year of death unknown Year of birth unknown People from Harran Mathematicians of the medieval Islamic world 10th-century Arab people {{math-hist-stub