Person: Banu Musa Brothers
The Bana Musa brothers were Islamic mathematicians whose work is almost indistinguishable.
Mathematical Profile (Excerpt):
- The most studied treatise written by the Banu Musa is Kitab marifat masakhat al-ashkal Ⓣ(The Book of the Measurement of Plane and Spherical Figures).
- There are many similarities in the methods employed by the Banu Musa and those employed by Archimedes.
- The Banu Musa apply the method of exhaustion invented by Eudoxus and used so effectively by Archimedes.
- As used by the Banu Musa the "method of exhaustion" loses most of its subtlety and power.
- In another aspect, however, the Banu Musa made a definite step forward.
- The Banu Musa's concept of number is broader than that of the Greeks.
- The Banu Musa also introduce geometrical proofs which involve thinking of the geometric objects as moving.
Born about 800, Baghdad, (now in Iraq). Died 860, Iraq.
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Ancient Arab, Astronomy, Origin Iraq
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- O’Connor, John J; Robertson, Edmund F: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
