Muhammad Baqir Yazdi

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Muhammad Baqir Yazdi is an Iranian mathematician living 16th century. He gave the pair of amicable numbers 9,363,584 and 9,437,056 many years before Euler's contribution to amicable numbers. [1] He was the last notable Islamic mathematician . His major book is Oyoun Alhesab (Arabic:عيون الحساب).

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  1. ^ Costello, PAtrick (2002-05-01). "NEW AMICABLE PAIRS OF TYPE (2; 2) AND TYPE (3; 2)". MATHEMATICS OF COMPUTATION (American Mathematical Society) vol 72 Number 241: 489–497. http://www.ams.org/mcom/2003-72-241/S0025-5718-02-01414-X/S0025-5718-02-01414-X.pdf. Retrieved 2007-04-19. 

Muhammad Yazdi was Iranian.