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{{short description|Moroccan mathematician and astronomer}} ...cubes. Another, called ''Tanbīh al-Albāb'',<ref>A Djebbar: Mathematics in medieval Maghreb; AMUCHMA-Newsletter 15; Universidade Pedagógico (UP), Maputo (Mozam ...

...interests = [[Mathematics in medieval Islam|Mathematics]], [[Medicine in medieval Islam|Medicine]] ...bbi]] from [[North Africa]] named [[Judah ibn Abbas|Yehuda ibn Abūn]].<ref>Medieval Cultures in Contact, By Richard Gyug, pg. 123</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1= ...

...كي}}, {{died in|1225}}), was a [[Mathematics in the medieval Islamic world|medieval mathematician]] and [[Islamic philosopher]] and a well-known [[sufism|Sufi] ...bi]],<ref>Vincent J. Cornell, ''Realm of the Saint: Power and Authority in Moroccan Sufism'', University of Texas Press, 1998, p. 221</ref> he is best known fo ...

...e notice|1=Mathematics in the Islamic golden age|2=Talk:Mathematics in the medieval Islamic world#Requested move 23 June 2025}} ...nstudied... Still, the general outline... is known. In particular, Islamic mathematicians fully developed the decimal place-value number system to include decimal fr ...

...of Aragon|Juan II]].<ref>{{Citation |last=Bisson|first=Thomas N.|title=The Medieval Crown of Aragon: A Short History|publisher=Clarendon Press|place=Oxford|yea * [[May 14]] &ndash; The [[1465 Moroccan revolt|Moroccan Revolt]] in [[Fes|Fez]] ousts the Maranid rulers, and leads to the killing ...

...and [[Ibn al-Banna]], all three being mathematicians of [[Moroccan people|Moroccan]] origin.<ref name="Schwartz">{{Cite conference |conference=Eighth North Af ...536 }} (On a previously unpublished treatise on Double False Position in a medieval Arabic manuscript.) ...

* [[Rashi]] (1040–1105), medieval rabbi based in [[Troyes]], famed as the author of the first comprehensive c * [[Roger Karoutchi]] (born 1951), Moroccan-born Secretary of State to the Prime Minister, with responsibility for Rela ...

...ions were used in [[Ancient Rome]] and in [[Islamic art]] such as in the [[Moroccan architecture]] and [[Islamic geometric patterns|decorative geometric tiling ...er]] [[Ludwig Schläfli]] pioneered this by defining ''polyschemes'', which mathematicians nowadays call [[polytopes]]. These are the analogues to polygons and [[poly ...

...broader perspective, this was the first step opening the [[Arab world]] to medieval Europe, which in fact led to the [[Age of Discovery]] with Portuguese explo ...ese siege camp was soon itself surrounded and starved into submission by a Moroccan relief army. In the resulting treaty, Henry promised to deliver Ceuta back ...

</ref> In medieval usage, however, the term ''madrasah'' was usually specific to institutions ...}}</ref><ref name=":6">Jonathan Berkey, ''The Transmission of Knowledge in Medieval Cairo'' (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992), ''passim''</ref> By ...

...tus=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Kleinhenz |first=Christopher |title=Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia |publisher=Routledge |year=2004 |volume=1 |pages=407 ...n |title=A maritime archaeology of ships : innovation and social change in medieval and early modern Europe |date=2013 |location=Oxford, UK |isbn=978-1-84217-2 ...

{{further|Babylonian astronomy|Babylonian mathematics|Science in the medieval Islamic world}} * [[Sudines]], Babylonian sage, mentioned as one of the famous Chaldean mathematicians and astronomer-astrologers by later Roman writers like Strabo (Geografia 16 ...

...rolingian Empire into three kingdoms whose borders had a lasting impact on medieval political boundaries. Most of modern Belgium was in the [[Middle Francia|Mi ...es/1977/|archive-date= 3 December 2010|url-status=live}}</ref> Two Belgian mathematicians have been awarded the [[Fields Medal]]: [[Pierre Deligne]] in 1978 and [[Je ...

...became the first [[Holy Roman Emperor]] of the [[Holy Roman Empire]], the medieval German state. ...e=ANCIENT HISTORY |encyclopedia=An encyclopedia of world history: ancient, medieval and modern, chronologically arranged |publisher=Harrap |url=https://books.g ...

|ShortSummary=A trail of evidence leading from a [[Middle Ages|medieval]] [[abbey]] to a small town in [[Connecticut]] sheds new light on [[rheumat ...the life of [[Srinivasa Ramanujan]], a poor clerk from India who astounded mathematicians in the 1910s with his brilliant insight into the world of numbers. ...