Person: Al-Kindi, Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Ishaq al-Sabbah

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Al-Kindi was an Islamic mathematician who wrote on the Indian mumber system as well as geometry and optics.

Mathematical Profile (Excerpt):

Born about 801, Kufa, Iraq. Died 873, Baghdad, Iraq.

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Ancient Arab, Origin Iraq

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