Ibrahim ibn Sinan
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Ibrahim ibn Sinan (Arabic: Ibrāhīm ibn Sinān ibn Thābit ibn Qurra, Script error: No such module "Lang".; born 295Template:Snd296 AH/c. 908Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". in Baghdad, died: 334-335 AH/946 in Baghdad, aged 38) was a mathematician and astronomer who belonged to a family of scholars originally from Harran in northern Mesopotamia. He was the son of Sinan ibn Thabit (c. 880Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Snd943) and the grandson of Thābit ibn Qurra (c. 830Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Snd901).Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Like his grandfather, he belonged to a religious sect of star worshippers known as the Sabians of Harran.[1]
Ibrahim ibn Sinan studied geometry, in particular tangents to circles. He made advances in the quadrature of the parabola and the theory of integration, generalizing the work of Archimedes, which was unavailable at the time.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[2] Ibrahim ibn Sinan is often considered to be one of the most important mathematicians of his time.[2]
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- Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". Reviews: Seyyed Hossein Nasr (1998) in Isis 89 (1) pp. 112-113; Charles Burnett (1998) in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 61 (2) p. 406.
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- 900s births
- 946 deaths
- Year of birth uncertain
- 10th-century Arab people
- 10th-century people from the Abbasid Caliphate
- 10th-century mathematicians
- 10th-century astronomers
- Medieval geometers
- People from Baghdad
- Mathematicians from the Abbasid Caliphate
- Astronomers from the Abbasid Caliphate
- Sabian scholars from the Abbasid Caliphate