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    Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd Masʿūd al-Kāshī (or al-Kāshānī) (Persian: غیاث‌الدین جمشید کاشانی Ghiyās-ud-dīn Jamshīd Kāshānī) (c. 1380 Kashan, Iran – 22 June...
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    period. Islamic astronomers who worked at the observatory include Jamshid al-Kashi, Ali Qushji, and Ulugh Beg himself. The observatory was destroyed in...
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  • rather than an erasable dust board. While the Persian mathematician Jamshīd al-Kāshī claimed to have discovered decimal fractions himself in the 15th century...
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    al-'Awwam, and geography enabled Abu Zayd al-Balkhi to make accurate maps. Islamic mathematicians such as Al-Khwarizmi, Avicenna and Jamshīd al-Kāshī...
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    football administrator Jafar Kashani (1944–2019), Iranian footballer Jamshīd al-Kāshī (c. 1380–1429), Persian astronomer and mathematician Khalil Mobasher...
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    developed approximations correct to eleven and then thirteen digits. Jamshīd al-Kāshī achieved sixteen digits next. Early modern mathematicians reached an...
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    Jamshīd al-Kāshī, who computed the most accurate trigonometric tables of his era, wrote about various methods of solving triangles in his Miftāḥ al-ḥisāb...
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  • Ma'shar al-Balkhi (Albumasar) Jamshīd al-Kāshī Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī Muḥyi al-Dīn al-Maghribī Mo'ayyeduddin Urdi Muhammad Baqir Yazdi Nasir al-Din al-Tusi...
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  • O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F. (1999). "Ghiyath al-Din Jamshid Mas'ud al-Kashi". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. Archived from the...
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  • Ptolemy was 3;8,30 = 3 + ⁠8/60⁠ + ⁠30/602⁠ = ⁠377/120⁠ ≈ 3.141666.... Jamshīd al-Kāshī, a 15th-century Persian mathematician, calculated 2π as a sexagesimal...
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  • Runge–Kutta methods, for numerical solution of differential equations Jamshīd al-Kāshī used iterative methods to calculate the sine of 1° and π in The Treatise...
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    them. The Persian mathematician Jamshīd al-Kāshī made the same discovery of decimal fractions in the 15th century. Al Khwarizmi introduced fractions to...
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    Memorization People Archimedes Liu Hui Zu Chongzhi Aryabhata Madhava Jamshīd al-Kāshī Ludolph van Ceulen François Viète Seki Takakazu Takebe Kenko William...
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  • Memorization People Archimedes Liu Hui Zu Chongzhi Aryabhata Madhava Jamshīd al-Kāshī Ludolph van Ceulen François Viète Seki Takakazu Takebe Kenko William...
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  • Memorization People Archimedes Liu Hui Zu Chongzhi Aryabhata Madhava Jamshīd al-Kāshī Ludolph van Ceulen François Viète Seki Takakazu Takebe Kenko William...
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    Al-Kashi, author: Adolf P. Youschkevitch, chief editor: Boris A. Rosenfeld, p. 256 O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Ghiyath al-Din Jamshid Mas'ud...
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  • Beg at Samarkand's Ulugh Beg Observatory. These astronomers included Jamshid al-Kashi and Ali Qushji, among others. The Zij-i-Sultani was not surpassed in...
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    mathematicians including Omar Khayyám, Bhāskara II, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Jamshīd al-Kāshī (14th century), Ulugh Beg (14th century), Regiomontanus (1464)...
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  • Memorization People Archimedes Liu Hui Zu Chongzhi Aryabhata Madhava Jamshīd al-Kāshī Ludolph van Ceulen François Viète Seki Takakazu Takebe Kenko William...
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  • {\frac {2b}{3}}} and b {\displaystyle b} . In the early 15th century, Jamshīd al-Kāshī developed an early form of Newton's method to numerically solve the...
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    pdf O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Ghiyath al-Din Jamshid Mas'ud al-Kashi", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St...
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    Memorization People Archimedes Liu Hui Zu Chongzhi Aryabhata Madhava Jamshīd al-Kāshī Ludolph van Ceulen François Viète Seki Takakazu Takebe Kenko William...
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  • Memorization People Archimedes Liu Hui Zu Chongzhi Aryabhata Madhava Jamshīd al-Kāshī Ludolph van Ceulen François Viète Seki Takakazu Takebe Kenko William...
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    (modern Mexico City), 1396–1417, father of Moctezuma I (d. c. 1417) Jamshīd al-Kāshī, Persian astronomer and mathematician (d. 1429) King Lukeni lua Nimi...
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  • Memorization People Archimedes Liu Hui Zu Chongzhi Aryabhata Madhava Jamshīd al-Kāshī Ludolph van Ceulen François Viète Seki Takakazu Takebe Kenko William...
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    develop any notation to represent them. The Persian mathematician Jamshid al-Kashi used, and claimed to have discovered, decimal fractions in the 15th...
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  • and career of Iranian mathematician and astronomer Jamshid Kashani, also known as Jamshid Al-Kashi. It was broadcast during the month of Ramazan (August–September)...
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    in the work of the Persian mathematician Sharaf al-Din al-Tusi, while his successor Jamshīd al-Kāshī used a form of Newton's method to solve xP − N =...
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    language. These developments mostly took place in the Middle East, Central Asia, Al-Andalus, and North Africa, and later in the Far East and India. It closely...
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  • first ever non-sterile hybrid obtained through the crossbreeding) Jamshīd al-Kāshī (c. 1380–1429), Persia/Iran – plate of conjunctions, analog planetary...
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