Abu-l-Jude Muhammad ibn Lays ( Arabic. أبو الجود محمد بن أحمد بن لیث ; X — XI centuries) is a Central Asian geometer of Persian [1] [2] origin. He was a contemporary of al-Biruni and was in correspondence with him.
| Abu l Jude Muhammad ibn Lays | |
|---|---|
| Arab. أبو الجود محمد بن أحمد بن لیث | |
| Date of death | XI century |
| Known as | mathematician |
He wrote the “Book on building a heptagon inscribed in a circle”, “The book on measuring a triangle with given sides” (apparently, it considered the Archimedes-Heron theorem ), “The book on solving the Menelaus problem” (which considered the problem of inscribing in a given semicircle of a broken line equal to a given segment), “A Treatise on Cubic Equations” ( Omar Khayyam reports that this treatise was devoted to solving cubic equations using conical sections).
Notes
- ↑ Mathematics Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Mathematics / under. ed. Helaine Selin, Ubiratan D'Ambrosio. - Springer Science & Business Media, 2000. - P. 153. - 479 p. - ISBN 9780792364818 .
- ↑ Journal of the Asiatic Society . - Asiatic Society, 1950 .-- P. 54.
Literature
- Matvievskaya, G.P. The doctrine of number in the medieval Near and Middle East. - Tashkent: Fan, 1967.
- Matvievskaya, G.P., Rosenfeld, B.A. Mathematicians and astronomers of the Muslim Middle Ages and their works (VIII-XVII centuries). - M .: Science, 1983.
- Maurice Charbel. Encyclopedia of Mathematical Scientists - Their Life and Heritage = موسوعة علماء الرياضيات - حياتهم وآثارهم. - Beirut: Dar al-Qutub al-Ilmiya, 1992 .-- S. 104. - 582 p. - ISBN 9782745115461 .