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    Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al Ḥasan al-Karajī (Persian: ابو بکر محمد بن الحسن الکرجی; c. 953 – c. 1029) was a 10th-century Persian mathematician and engineer...
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  • (Paris, 1853), praised Al-Karaji for being "the first who introduced the theory of algebraic calculus". Stemming from this, Al-Karaji investigated binomial...
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    influencing mathematical thought for an extended period. Successors like al-Karaji expanded on his work, contributing to advancements in various mathematical...
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    by al-Karaji and continued by al-Samaw'al and others was that of an inductive argument for dealing with certain arithmetic sequences. Thus al-Karaji used...
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  • based on his ability to extract roots. One of Khayyam's predecessors, al-Karaji, had already discovered the triangular arrangement of the coefficients...
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  • binomial coefficients appears in a work by Al-Karaji, quoted by Al-Samaw'al in his "al-Bahir". Al-Karaji described the triangular pattern of the binomial...
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  • Abu Ahmad Muhammad bin Ali bin Muhammad al-Karaji, better known as al-Qassab, was a Muslim warrior-scholar, exegete and specialist in Hadith studies....
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  • Abū Sahl al-Qūhī Abu-Mahmud al-Khujandi Abū al-Wafā' al-Būzjānī Ibn Sahl Al-Sijzi Ibn Yunus Abu Nasr Mansur Kushyar ibn Labban Al-Karaji Ibn al-Haytham...
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    Pascal's triangle previously given by al-Karaji. Arabic Wikisource has original text related to this article: al-Samaw'al He also wrote a famous polemic...
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    later mathematicians, such as al-Karaji and Fibonacci. Further developments in algebra were made by Al-Karaji in his treatise al-Fakhri, where he extends the...
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  • O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Abu Bekr ibn Muhammad ibn al-Husayn Al-Karaji", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews...
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  • Abu Kamil (redirect from Al-Hasib Abu Kamil)
    Adequate (Kitāb al-kifāya), and Book of the Kernel (Kitāb al-ʿasīr). The works of Abu Kamil influenced other mathematicians, like al-Karaji and Fibonacci...
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  • Mansur, Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani, Ahmad ibn Fadlan, Ali Ibn Isa, Al-Karaji (al-Karkhi), Ibn al-Haytham (Book of Optics), Avicenna, Averroes, and Al-Biruni....
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  • specifically called on to define an infinite class of problems." Al-Karaji, in his treatise al-Fakhri, extends the methodology to incorporate integer powers...
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    coefficient can be found in a work by Al-Karaji, quoted by Al-Samaw'al in his "al-Bahir". Cauchy-Riemann Integral: Ibn al-Haytham gave a simple form of this...
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    b)(c\pm d)} , and al-Karaji wrote in his al-Fakhrī that "negative quantities must be counted as terms". In the 10th century, Abū al-Wafā' al-Būzjānī considered...
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  • to its standard use throughout the region and the world. 953 – Persia, Al-Karaji is the "first person to completely free algebra from geometrical operations...
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    treatise al-Fakhri (by al-Karajī, 953 – ca. 1029) builds on it to some extent. According to Rashed Roshdi, Al-Karajī's contemporary Ibn al-Haytham knew...
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  • al Ḥusayn Al-Karaji (c.953-1029) wrote on the binomial theorem and Pascal's triangle. In a now lost work known only from subsequent quotation by al-Samaw'al...
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  • phrase were written by Al-Karaji a.k.a. Al-Karkhi (died circa 1029), Umar al-Khayyam (died 1123), and Ibn al-Banna (died 1321). Al-Khwarizmi's algebraic...
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    called alum for the settling of suspended particles. Persian engineer Al-Karaji (c. 953 – c. 1029) wrote a book, The Extraction of Hidden Waters, which...
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  • triangle was known well before Pascal's time. The Persian mathematician Al-Karaji (953–1029) wrote a now-lost book which contained the first formulation...
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    Lorraine) Abu'l-Qasim Jafar, Buyid statesman and vizier (Fasanjas family) Al-Karaji, Persian mathematician and engineer (approximate date) Fujiwara no Kinsue...
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    archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1012) Al-Karaji, Persian mathematician Bermudo II, king of León and Galicia March 19 – al-Mansur bi-Nasr Allah, Fatimid caliph...
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  • of geomorphology and natural climate change. 1000: Al-Karaji uses mathematical induction. 1058: al-Zarqālī in Islamic Spain discovers the apsidal precession...
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  • mathematician al-Karaji dedicated two of his works to him. His son, Abu Shuja Muhammad al-Ashraf, was briefly vizier of the Fatimid caliph al-Mustansir Billah...
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    inductive proof for arithmetic sequences was introduced in the Al-Fakhri (1000) by Al-Karaji, who used it to prove the binomial theorem and properties of...
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  • made various contributions to its solution. These include Aryabhata, Al-Karaji, Ibn al-Haytham, Thomas Harriot, Johann Faulhaber, Pierre de Fermat and Blaise...
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  • Italy), Aryabhata (b. 476, India), Abu Bakr al-Karaji (d. 1019, Persia) and Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham (965–1039, Iraq). During the late...
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    the equation for (a, c) equal to (1, 1), (1, −1), (1, 12), and (3, 9). Al-Karaji, a 10th-century Persian mathematician, worked on similar problems to Diophantus...
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