Na‘īm ibn Mūsā ( ar, نعيم بن موسى) was a
mathematician
A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems.
Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
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of the
Islamic Golden Age
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and a pupil of
Thabit Ibn Qurra Thabit ( ar, ) is an Arabic name for males that means "the imperturbable one". It is sometimes spelled Thabet.
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. 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.
''Collection of geometrical propositions''
Although not regarded as 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
*
Banu Musa, his father and two uncles
References
Sources
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9th-century mathematicians
Mathematicians from the Abbasid Caliphate
People from Baghdad
9th-century people from the Abbasid Caliphate