• Thābit ibn Qurra (full name: Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Zahrūn al-Ḥarrānī al-Ṣābiʾ, Arabic: أبو الحسن ثابت بن قرة بن زهرون الحراني الصابئ, Latin: Thebit/Thebith/Tebit;...
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  • In number theory, a Thabit number, Thâbit ibn Qurra number, or 321 number is an integer of the form 3 ⋅ 2 n − 1 {\displaystyle 3\cdot 2^{n}-1} for a non-negative...
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    could be derived was invented circa 850 by the Iraqi mathematician Thābit ibn Qurra (826–901). Other Arab mathematicians who studied amicable numbers are...
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  • Ibrahim ibn Sinan (Arabic: Ibrāhīm ibn Sinān ibn Thābit ibn Qurra, ابراهيم بن سنان بن ثابت بن قرة; born 295 – 296 AH/c. 908 in Baghdad, died: 334-335...
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  • Abū Saʿīd Sinān ibn Thābit ibn Qurra (Arabic: أبو سعيد سنان بن ثابت بن قرة), c. 880–943, was a medieval scholar who served as the court physician of the...
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  • members, most notably the Harranian astronomers and mathematicians Thabit ibn Qurra (died 901) and al-Battani (died 929). From the early tenth century...
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    translators, among whom were Abū 'Uthmān al-Dimashqi, Ibn Mūsā al-Nawbakhti, and Thābit ibn Qurra, to translate books of philosophy and classical Greek...
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  • Thabit ibn Qays, companion of Muhammad Thabit ibn Qurra (c. 826 – 901), Baghdadi mathematician and astronomer Thabit number Tabit (town) (or Thabit)...
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  • Baghdad from Byzantium, Muhammad met and recruited Thābit ibn Qurra, a money changer from Harran. Thābit went on to make important discoveries in algebra...
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    (2009a). "Thabit ibn Qurra sur l'existence et l'infini: les réponses aux questions posées par Ibn Usayyid". In Rashed, Roshdi (ed.). Thābit ibn Qurra: Science...
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  • made corrections to the Book of Lemmas as translated into Arabic by Thabit ibn Qurra and last revised by Nasir al-Din al-Tusi. Al-Nasawī's arithmetic explains...
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  • Na‘īm ibn Mūsā (Arabic: نعيم بن موسى) was a mathematician of the Islamic Golden Age and a pupil of Thabit Ibn Qurra. Na'im was from Baghdad and lived...
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    written mention is made of Shrewsbury (West Midlands). February 18 – Thābit ibn Qurra dies at Baghdad, having served as court astronomer to the Abbasid Caliph...
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  • been translated a century before by Hilal al-Himsi (books 1–4) and Thabit ibn Qurra (books 5–7). List of Iranian scientists Keramati, Yunis. "Abu'l-Fath...
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    opposite side a and a side with length s along c, as shown in the figure. Thābit ibn Qurra stated that the sides of the three triangles were related as: a 2 +...
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    Hunayn ibn Ishaq translated the entire collection of Greek medical books, including famous pieces by Galen and Hippocrates. The Sabian Thābit ibn Qurra (826–901)...
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    interest in mathematics and astronomy. His contemporary, the polymath Thābit ibn Qurra, was also an adherent of Sabianism, which died out during the 11th...
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    MR 0698139 Rashed, Roshdi (2009), "Thābit ibn Qurra et l'art de la mesure", in Rashed, Roshdi (ed.), Thābit ibn Qurra: Science and Philosophy in Ninth-Century...
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  • for expressing a fraction as the sum of unit fractions. 895 – Syria, Thābit ibn Qurra: the only surviving fragment of his original work contains a chapter...
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  • members, most notably the Harranian astronomers and mathematicians Thabit ibn Qurra (died 901) and al-Battani (died 929). There has been some speculation...
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    prominent scholars of their age, including Al-Battani, Jabir ibn Hayyan and Thābit ibn Qurra, studied at the Harran University. The university was also...
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    oppressors and nonbelievers. The 10th century ‘Abbasid mathematician, Thabit ibn Qurra, was considered to be an expert on talismans. In one of his texts on...
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    and observations he used in De Revolutionibus, namely al-Battani, Thabit ibn Qurra, al-Zarqali, Averroes, and al-Bitruji. It has been suggested that the...
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    Maʾkhūdhāt Mansūba ilā Arshimīdis) is a book attributed to Archimedes by Thābit ibn Qurra, though the authorship of the book is questionable. It consists of...
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  • scholars hired by the Banu Musa brothers along with Hunayn ibn Ishaq, Thabit Ibn Qurra, Qusta Ibn Luqa and Al Himsi. The Banu Musa brothers were mathematicians...
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    of the name of the 9th century Iraqi astronomer and mathematician Thābit ibn Qurra. By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing...
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  • his book Kitab al-Asrar (Book of Secrets). Mathematics 826 – 901: Thabit ibn Qurra (Latinized, Thebit.) Studied at Baghdad's House of Wisdom under the...
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    mathematics, Alhazen built on the mathematical works of Euclid and Thabit ibn Qurra and worked on "the beginnings of the link between algebra and geometry"...
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    which showed (Proposition V) that the two circles are congruent. Thābit ibn Qurra, who translated this book into Arabic, attributed it to Greek mathematician...
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  • the Arab astronomer Thābit ibn Qurra, but this model has also been attributed to Ibn al-Adami and to Thabit's grandson, Ibrahim ibn Sinan. In this trepidation...
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