Ibn al-Majdi

Ibn al‐Majdī
Ibn al‐Majdī
Born	1359; Cairo, Mamluk Sultanate, now Egypt
Died	27 January 1447 (aged 88); Cairo, Mamluk Sultanate, now Egypt
Occupation(s)	Astronomer, mathematician, engineer, grammarian, faqih, calenders
Era	Mamluk era ; (Islamic Golden Age)

Ahmad bin Rajab bin Taibugha al-Majdī al-ala’i bin Abdullah Shihāb al‐Dīn Abu al-Abbas (Egyptian Arabic: أحمد بن رجب بن طيبغا المجدي العلائي بن عبد الله شهاب الدين أبو العباس; 1359–1447 CE) was an Egyptian mathematician and astronomer. His most important mathematical work was "Book of Substance", a voluminous commentary on the Summary of the Operations of Calculations by Ibn al-Banna'.^[1]

References[edit]

^ Chabert, Jean-Luc (1999). A History of Algorithms: From the Pebble to the Microchip. Springer. p. 497. ISBN 3540633693.

External links[edit]

Charette, François (2007). "Ibn al‐Majdī: Shihāb al‐Dīn Abū al‐ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Rajab ibn Ṭaybughā al‐Majdī al‐Shāfiʿī". In Thomas Hockey; et al. (eds.). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. New York: Springer. pp. 561–2. ISBN 9780387310220. (PDF version)

[1] Chabert, Jean-Luc (1999). A History of Algorithms: From the Pebble to the Microchip. Springer. p. 497. ISBN 3540633693.

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