Person: Ibn Tibbon, Jacob ben Machir

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Jacob ben Tibbon was a French Jewish medical doctor who translated Arabic versions of Greek mathematics into Hebrew.

Mathematical Profile (Excerpt):

Born 1236, Marseilles, Spain (now France). Died 1305, Montpellier, France.

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Astronomy


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Github:
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References

Adapted from other CC BY-SA 4.0 Sources:

  1. O’Connor, John J; Robertson, Edmund F: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive