Ibrāhīm Ibn Sinān
Ibrahim ibn Sinan ibn Thabit ibn Qurra (* 908 in Baghdad ; † 946 ibid) was an Arab mathematician.
He was the son of the mathematician Sinan ibn Thabit and grandson of Thabit ibn Qurra . Ibrahim ibn Sinan, although he was only 38 years old, is considered one of the most important mathematicians of the heyday of Islamic science.
He published, among other things, on the construction of conic sections following Apollonios von Perge and on the quadrature of the parabola, using a more general integration method than Archimedes (On the measurement of the parabola). In this regard, he ties in with the work of his grandfather and explicitly mentions that he wanted to exceed the progress made by al-Mahani in the meantime. He also published a treatise on mathematical methods (On the method of analysis and synthesis), on astronomy (On the movements of the sun) and on the astrolabe with explanations on map projection.
Fonts
- AS Saidan (Editor) The works of Ibrahim ibn Sinan , Kuwait 1983 (Arabic with English summary)
literature
- Roshdi Rashed , Dictionary of Scientific Biography
- Roshdi Rashed, Hélène Bellosta Ibrāhīm Ibn Sinān, logique et géométrie au Xe siècle , Leiden: Brill 2000
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Ibrāhīm Ibn Sinān. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ibrāhīm Ibn Sinān |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ibrahim ibn Sinan ibn Thabit ibn Qurra |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Arabic mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baghdad |
| DATE OF DEATH | 946 |
| Place of death | Baghdad |