Na‘īm ibn Mūsā () was a
mathematician
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of the
Islamic Golden Age
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This period is traditionally understood to have begun during the reign o ...
and a pupil of
Thabit Ibn Qurra. Na'im was from
Baghdad
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and lived in the second half of the 9th century. He was the son of Muḥammad ibn Mūsā ibn Shākir, the oldest of the three brothers
Banu Musa
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''Collection of geometrical propositions''
Marco Panza, a historian of his works, states that "he was probably not a major mathematician".
His treatise ''Collection of geometrical propositions'' was "one of the first examples of a particular kind of mathematical treatises that became quite usual during the 10th century, and it reflects quite well 'the mathematical culture' of a 9th-century Baghdadi mathematician educated at Thabit ibn Qurra’s school". Only one copy of this work is known, preserved at the University Library of Istanbul. The treatise was edited and translated to French by Roshdi Rashed and Christian Houzel.
See also
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Banu Musa
Banu or BANU may refer to:
* Banu (name)
* Banu (Arabic), Arabic word for "the sons of" or "children of"
* Banu (makeup artist), an Indian makeup artist
* Banu Chichek, a character in the ''Book of Dede Korkut''
* Bulgarian Agrarian National Union ...
, his father and two uncles
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9th-century mathematicians
Mathematicians from the Abbasid Caliphate
People from Baghdad
9th-century people from the Abbasid Caliphate