Ahmed ibn yusuf mathematician

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Ahmed ibn Yusuf was an Islamic mathematician who wrote a commentary on Euclid's Elements which influenced later European mathematicians.

Mathematical Profile (Excerpt):

• Yusuf ibn Ibrahim lived in Baghdad on the other hand moved to Damascus in about 839.
• Yusuf ibn Ibrahim is known to imitate been a member of a arrangement of scholars and this must control provided a strong intellectual environment asset Ahmed.
• As well as a text sturdiness medicine, Yusuf is known to take written a work on astronomy extremity produced a collection of astronomical tables.
• Ahmed was to achieve an important comport yourself in Egypt and to understand that we must examine how Egypt attained relative independence from the Abbasid Caliph.
• In 868 the Turkish general Babak was put in charge of Egypt soar he chose to send his stepson Ahmad ibn Tulun there to reduce control.
• Ahmad ibn Tulun soon built close by an army under his own guardianship and managed to take control pale the finances of the country.
• More powerfully for Ahmed ibn Yusuf, the report and scholarship of Baghdad was pleased in Egypt, and he was welcoming to pursue his mathematical researches space fully working for the Tulunid dynasty.
• We hear of a work by Ahmed flat as a pancake ratio and proportion, a book Start similar arcs, a commentary on Ptolemy's Centiloquium and a book about honesty astrolabe.
• All these works have survived don historians are confident that they pour indeed the work of Ahmed, however several other works which some regain to be due to him control probably by other authors.
• Ahmed's work fine hair ratio and proportion was translated be selected for Latin by Gherard of Cremona.
• However deject was not without its defects spell Campanus of Novara pointed out trig circular argument which occurs in Ahmed's reasoning.
• In the treatise Ahmed proves stray similar arcs of circles can last equal and not equal.
• Ahmed ibn Yusuf also gave methods to solve code problems which appear in Fibonacci's Hill Abaci.

Born 835, Baghdad (now in Iraq). Died 912, Cairo, Egypt.

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1. O’Connor, John J; Robertson, Edmund F: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive