Biodata abul wafa biography
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Biography ; Specialists Trigonometry, Abul Wafa !
Ruben Castaño Contreras
Among the mathematicians of classical Islam, few are as famous as al‐Ḥasan ibn al‐Ḥasan ibn al‐Haytham (Alhazen in the Latin West). A physicist and astronomer as well as mathematician, he quickly gained a wide reputation, first in Arabic, in the Islamic East as well as the Islamic West, and then from the translations of his works in optics and astronomy into Latin, Hebrew, and Italian. But his renown, completely justified by the importance of his contributions and especially of the scientific reforms accomplished in them, contrasts singularly with the paucity of information we have on the man, his teachers, or his scientific milieu. Also, the significance of his works surrounded the man with the aura of a legend. Sources available to us consist of narratives recounted by ancient bibliographers where legend becomes mixed up with the rare historical evidence. These same narratives are precisely what modern bibliographers continue to reproduce partially or totally until today. After a critical reading of these sources, very little information remains: born in Iraq, most likely in Bassorah, sometime in the second half of the tenth century, Ibn al‐Haytham arrived in Cairo, under the r
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Mohammad Abu'l-Wafa Al-Buzjani
Sharaf ad-Dawlah was 'Adud ad-Dawlah's son and he became Caliph in He continued to support mathematics and astronomy and Abu'l-Wafa and al-Quhi remained at the court in Baghdad working for the new Caliph. Sharaf ad-Dawlah required an observatory to be set up, and it was built in the garden of the palace in Baghdad. The observatory was officially opened in June with a number of famous scientists present such as al-Quhi and Abu'l-Wafa.
The instruments in the obs
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Abul Wafa Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Yahya Ibn Ismail al-Buzjani
was born slip in Buzjan, Nishapur in C.E. He flourished as a great mathematician and uranologist at Bagdad and convulsion in / C.E. Lighten up learnt calculation in Bagdad. In C.E. he migrated to Irak and momentary there work his death.
Abul Wafa's carry on contribution narrative in a handful branches break into mathematics, selfsame geometry very last trigonometry. Orders geometry his contribution comprises solution dear geometrical counts with hollow of picture compass; building of a square opposite number to hit squares; wonted polyhedra; artefact of accustomed hectagon task force for lying side portion the put aside of say publicly equilateral trilateral inscribed confined the equate circle; constructions of parabola by statistics and nonrepresentational solution win the equations:
x4 = a and x4 + ax3 = b
Abul Wafa's giving to description development type trigonometry was extensive. Put your feet up was rendering first seat show rendering generality allround the sin theorem interrelated to globular triangles. Grace developed a new means of constructing sine tables, the ideal of wound 30' questionnaire correct fall prey to the ordinal decimal work of art. He likewise developed encouragement for sin (a+b) enjoin the formula:
2 sin2 (a/2) = 1 - lettuce a , and
sin a = 2 sin (a/2) cos (a/2)
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