[8]:282 The case of power 2 is explicitly stated in Euclid's elements and the case of at most power 3 had been established by Indian mathematicians. Omar Khayyam was a famous mathematician, poet and astronomer. [43] One of Khayyam's predecessors, Al-Karaji, had already discovered the triangular arrangement of the coefficients of binomial expansions that Europeans later came to know as Pascal's triangle;[44] Khayyam popularized this triangular array in Iran, so that it is now known as Omar Khayyam's triangle. In several respects Khayyam’s mathematical writings aresimilar to his texts in other genres: they are relatively few innumber, but deal with well-chosen topics and carry deep implications.Some of his mathematics relates in passing to [8]:283 After proving a number of theorems about them, he showed that Postulate V follows from the right angle hypothesis, and refuted the obtuse and acute cases as self-contradictory. Until the 12th century, geometry was largely concerned with approximate formulas for measuring areas and volumes in the tradition of the Roman surveyors. Smith, David (1935). [14]:68 His full name, as it appears in the Arabic sources, was Abu’l Fath Omar ibn Ibrahim al-Khayyam. There is a tradition of attributing poetry to Omar Khayyam, written in the form of quatrains (rubāʿiyāt رباعیات). B. Nicolas held that Omar's constant exhortations to drink wine should not be taken literally, but should be regarded rather in the light of Sufi thought where rapturous intoxication by "wine" is to be understood as a metaphor for the enlightened state or divine rapture of baqaa. Khayyam Omar Khayyam constructed the quadrilateral shown in the figure in an effort to prove that Euclid's fifth postulate, concerning parallel lines, is superfluous. At the age of 22, he had already begun making a name for himself in the field of mathematics. [48] The calendar remained in use across Greater Iran from the 11th to the 20th centuries. At high school we learn about equations of the form ax2 + bx + c = 0; these are called quadratic equations. [10]:663, Seyyed Hossein Nasr argues that it is "reductive" to use a literal interpretation of his verses (many of which are of uncertain authenticity to begin with) to establish Omar Khayyam's philosophy. Ulūgh Beg, the grandson of the Mongol conqueror Timur, founded an observatory at Samarkand in the early years of the 15th century. Aminrazavi (2007) states that "Sufi interpretation of Khayyam is possible only by reading into his Rubāʿīyyāt extensively and by stretching the content to fit the classical Sufi doctrine. A. R. Amir-Moez, "A Paper of Omar Khayyám". [84], The lunar crater Omar Khayyam was named in his honour in 1970, as was the minor planet 3095 Omarkhayyam discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Zhuravlyova in 1980. Ali Dashti (translated by L. P. Elwell-Sutton), Boscaglia, F. (2015). [10]:658, His boyhood was spent in Nishapur. Omar Khayyam, born about 1048 and known to us as a poet and philos After the death of Malik-Shah and his vizier (murdered, it is thought, by the Ismaili order of Assassins), Omar fell from favor at court, and as a result, he soon set out on his pilgrimage to Mecca. [30] It is divided into three parts: (i) equations which can be solved with compass and straight edge, (ii) equations which can be solved by means of conic sections, and (iii) equations which involve the inverse of the unknown. [17]:36[12] Four years after his death, Aruzi located his tomb in a cemetery in a then large and well-known quarter of Nishapur on the road to Marv. FitzGerald's Rubáiyát and Agnosticism. Victorian Poetry, 46(1), 55–67. Penerbit UTM (July 2000): Mohini Mohamed. [85], Google released two Google Doodles commemorating him. Ulūgh Beg was himself a good astronomer, and his tables of sines and tangents for every minute of arc (accurate to five sexagesimal places) were one of the great achievements in numerical mathematics up to his time. Until the 11th century only a small part of the Greek mathematical corpus was known in the West. The hypotheses of acute, obtuse, and right angles are now known to lead respectively to the non-Euclidean hyperbolic geometry of Gauss-Bolyai-Lobachevsky, to that of Riemannian geometry, and to Euclidean geometry. [11]:15[12][13] Nishapur was also a major center of the Zoroastrian religion, and it is likely that Khayyam's father was a Zoroastrian who had converted to Islam. Umar Khayyam writes himself: “This [Tasawwuf or Sufism] is the best of all ways, because none of the perfections of God are kept away from it, and there are no obstacles or veils put before it. (It was there too that al-Ṭūsī’s pupil Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī [1236–1311] and his pupil Kamāl al-Dīn Fārisī, using Ibn al-Haytham’s great work, the Optics, were able to give the first mathematically satisfactory explanation of the rainbow. [82] In 2016, three statues of Khayyam were unveiled: one at the University of Oklahoma, one in Nishapur and one in Florence, Italy. FitzGerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam contains loose translations of quatrains from the Bodleian manuscript. “A Geometric Solution of a Cubic by Omar Khayyam … in Which Colored Diagrams Are Used Instead of Letters for the Greater Ease of Learners”. Yet More Light on 'Umar-i-Khayyām. In 2009, the state of Iran donated a pavilion to the United Nations Office in Vienna, inaugurated at Vienna International Center. The Earliest Account of 'Umar Khayyam. By BEATRICE LUMPKIN Malcolm X College Chicago City Colleges Chicago, IL 60612 If we cannot always bring poetry into the mathematics classroom, we can at least bring a poet. [14]:160 As noted by Bowen these works indicate his involvement in the problems of metaphysics rather than in the subtleties of Sufism. Based on the context, some historians of mathematics such as D. J. Struik, believe that Omar must have known the formula for the expansion of the binomial "[49]:224, A popular claim to the effect that Khayyam believed in heliocentrism is based on Edward FitzGerald's popular but anachronistic rendering of Khayyam's poetry, in which the first lines are mistranslated with a heliocentric image of the Sun flinging "the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight". “Archimedes Transformed: The Case of a Result Stating a Maximum for a Cubic Equation”. Schenker, D. (1981). Mathematics Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for people studying math at any level and professionals in related fields. This page was last edited on 16 April 2021, at 00:18. Omar Khayyam was born in 1048 in Nishapur, a leading metropolis in Khorasan during medieval times that reached its zenith of prosperity in the eleventh century under the Seljuq dynasty. [14]:20 Khayyam was also taught by the Zoroastrian convert mathematician, Abu Hassan Bahmanyar bin Marzban. A MATHEMATICS CLUB PROJECT FROM OMAR KHAYYAM An ancient construction yields solutions to cubic equations. [45] [83] Over 150 composers have used the Rubaiyat as their source of inspiration. On December 4, 1131, Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet, Omar Khayyam; born Ghiyāth ad-Dīn Abu’l-Fatḥ ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm al-Khayyām Nīshāpūrī, passed away. He began by constructing line segments. Early Life. View six larger pictures. "Omar the Tentmaker" is also the title of a 1914 play by Richard Walton Tully in an oriental setting, adapted as a silent film in 1922. "[67] mathematics. His Arithmetic, which was based on Nicomachus, was well known and was the means by which medieval scholars learned of Pythagorean number theory. Pessoa, Borges and Khayyam. The undertaking began probably in 1076 and ended in 1079[14]:28 when Omar Khayyam and his colleagues concluded their measurements of the length of the year, reporting it to 14 significant figures with astounding accuracy. Slightly earlier, astronomers in the East had experimented with plane projections of the sphere, and al-Bīrūnī invented such a projection that could be used to produce a map of a hemisphere. London: I.B. Cubic equations are of the form ax3 + bx2 + cx + d = 0. xv. Princeton Legacy Library: Michael Beard, Katouzian, H. (1991). [29] The treatise on algebra contains his work on cubic equations. He compiled astronomical tables and contributed to calendar reform and discovered a geometrical method of solving cubic equations by intersecting a parabola with a circle. Beveridge, H. (1905). Khayyam. Khayyam was the mathematician who noticed the importance of a general binomial theorem. At one time, Persian was a common cultural language of much of the non-Arabic Islamic world. Omar Khayyam, mathematician by D. J. Struik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts Introduction Omar's quatrains, the Rub?iy?t, are familiar to many of us through the ex quisite translation by Edward FitzGerald, often adorned with delicate illustrations. [10]:659, The Jalālī calendar was a true solar calendar where the duration of each month is equal to the time of the passage of the Sun across the corresponding sign of the Zodiac. [11]:18 Conversely, the Khayyamic quatrains have also been described as mystical Sufi poetry. Mathematics - Mathematics - Omar Khayyam: The mathematician and poet Omar Khayyam was born in Neyshābūr (in Iran) only a few years before al-Bīrūnī’s death. Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument About it and about: but evermore Came out by the same door as in I went. How 11th century Persian mathematician, philosopher, and poet Omar Khayyam geometrically determined a positive real solution to a cubic equation. Naturally, cubic equations are harder to solve than quadratics.Khayyam conjectured correctly that it is not possible to solve cubic equations using the traditional Ancient Greek geometrical tools of straightedge and compass. Omar Khayyam(c. 1048-1131), also known as Umar al-Khayyam, was a Persian poet, scientist and mathematician. [58] According to Al-Bayhaqi, he was reading the metaphysics in Avicenna's the Book of Healing before he died. "[10]:663, Thomas Hyde was the first European to call attention to Omar and to translate one of his quatrains into Latin (Historia religionis veterum Persarum eorumque magorum, 1700). "[60]:355 Despite being hailed as a poet by a number of biographers, according to Richard Nelson Frye "it is still possible to argue that Khayyam's status as a poet of the first rank is a comparatively late development. [36]:241 This particular geometric solution of cubic equations has been further investigated by M. Hachtroudi and extended to solving fourth-degree equations. [33]:158 This task remained open until the sixteenth century, where algebraic solution of the cubic equation was found in its generality by Cardano, Del Ferro, and Tartaglia in Renaissance Italy. He spent his childhood near the court of the Karakhanid. FitzGerald's translation was a factor in rekindling interest in Khayyam as a poet even in his native Iran. [1] He was later allowed to return to Nishapur owing to his declining health. In 1073–4 peace was concluded with Sultan Malik-Shah I who had made incursions into Karakhanid dominions. He concluded that there are fourteen different types of cubics that cannot be reduced to an equation of a lesser degree. He further says that "Tusi distinctly states that it is due to Omar Khayyam, and from the text, it seems clear that the latter was his inspirer. There are occasional quotes of verses attributed to Omar in texts attributed to authors of the 13th and 14th centuries, but these are of doubtful authenticity, so that skeptical scholars point out that the entire tradition may be pseudepigraphic. Tauris. b His work was indeed of a quality deserving Ulūgh Beg’s description as “known among the famous of the world.”. There was a panel of eight scholars working under the direction of Khayyam to make large-scale astronomical observations and revise the astronomical tables. [17]:30 The historian Bayhaqi, who was personally acquainted with Omar, provides the full details of his horoscope: "he was Gemini, the sun and Mercury being in the ascendant[...]". Among al-Kāshī’s works is a masterful computation of the value of 2π, which, when expressed in decimal fractions, is accurate to 16 places, as well as the application of a numerical method, now known as fixed-point iteration, for solving the cubic equation with sin 1° as a root. He was eventually asked to travel to Esfahan at the request of the Sultan and work of reforming the current calendar. [14]:8 Csillik (1960) suggests the possibility that Omar Khayyam could see in Sufism an ally against orthodox religiosity. For monastic life it sufficed to know how to calculate with Roman numerals. Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Mehdi Aminrazavi. [77] Many called him by the epithet King of the Wise (Arabic: ملك الحکماء). {\displaystyle (a+b)^{n}} In mathematics he contributed to the theory of equations, to the understanding of the parallel axiom, and possibly to … [53] A comparatively late manuscript is the Bodleian MS. Ouseley 140, written in Shiraz in 1460, which contains 158 quatrains on 47 folia. in The Portable Atheist by Christopher Hitchens. FitzGerald rendered Omar's name as "Tentmaker", and the anglicized name of "Omar the Tentmaker" resonated in English-speaking popular culture for a while. Daya in his writings (Mirsad al-‘Ibad, ca. This work is known for its solution of the various cases of the cubic equation by finding the intersections of appropriately chosen conic sections. [22]:101, One of his pupils Nizami Aruzi of Samarcand relates that Khayyam apparently did not have a belief in astrology and divination: "I did not observe that he (scil. [32]:43 He considered three binomial equations, nine trinomial equations, and seven tetranomial equations. Therefore, the calendar consisted of 25 ordinary years that included 365 days, and 8 leap years that included 366 days. a [33]:157[8]:281 The prerequisite lemmas for Khayyam's geometrical proof include Euclid VI, Prop 13, and Apollonius II, Prop 12. Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. ”The Real 'Omar Khayyām’”. His surviving mathematical works include: A commentary on the difficulties concerning the postulates of Euclid's Elements (Risāla fī šarḥ mā aškala min muṣādarāt kitāb Uqlīdis, completed in December 1077[6]), On the division of a quadrant of a circle (Risālah fī qismah rub‘ al-dā’irah, undated but completed prior to the treatise on algebra[6]), and On proofs for problems concerning Algebra (Maqāla fi l-jabr wa l-muqābala, most likely completed in 1079[8]:281). [60]:350, The various biographical extracts referring to Omar Khayyam describe him as unequalled in scientific knowledge and achievement during his time. ) th root of the numbers using a law he had discovered which did not depend on geometric figures. To this tradition Omar contributed the idea of a quadrilateral with two congruent sides perpendicular to the base, as shown in the figure. Khayyam's full name, Abū’l-Fath Ghiyāth al-Dīn ‘Umar ibn Ibrāhīm al-Khayyāmī al-Nīshāpūrī, suggests that his family trade was making tents, but his modern reputation hinges on the poetry, mathematics, and philosophy he generated in a region near present-day Afghanistan. [8]:282, Khayyam was the first to consider the three distinct cases of acute, obtuse, and right angle for the summit angles of a Khayyam-Saccheri quadrilateral. Osiris, 8, 122–217. [22]:99, Omar Khayyam died at the age of 83 in his hometown of Nishapur on 4 December 1131, and he is buried in what is now the Mausoleum of Omar Khayyam. [6] The French-Lebanese writer Amin Maalouf based the first half of his historical fiction novel Samarkand on Khayyam's life and the creation of his Rubaiyat. This book was most likely titled The difficulties of arithmetic (Moškelāt al-hesāb), and is not ext… He was called Khayyam [tentmaker] probably because of his father's occupation. The argument supporting the claim that Khayyam had a general binomial theorem is based on his ability to extract roots. [86], Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer, Contemporary Persian and Classical Persian are the same language, but writers since 1900 are classified as contemporary. John Wallis, professor of geometry at Oxford, translated Tusi's commentary into Latin. Five of the quatrains later attributed to Omar are found as early as 30 years after his death, quoted in Sindbad-Nameh. Omar Khayyam, along with others before him, felt that the theory in Book V of Euclid’s Elements was logically satisfactory but intuitively unappealing, so he proved that a definition known to Aristotle was equivalent to that given in Euclid. His surviving mathematical works include: A commentary on the difficulties concerning the postulates of Euclid's Elements (Risāla fī šarḥ mā aškala min muṣādarāt kitāb Uqlīdis, completed in December 1077 ), On the division of a quadrant of a circle (Risālah fī qismah rub‘ al-dā’irah, undated but completed prior to the treatise on algebra ), and On proofs for problems concerning Algebra (Maqāla fi l-jabr wa l-muqābala, most likely completed in 1079 ). [8]:282 The treatise of Khayyam can be considered the first treatment of the axiom not based on petitio principii, but on a more intuitive postulate. A., Omar Khayyam: astronomer, mathematician, and poet, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library. [17], Khayyam was famous during his life as a mathematician. Omar Khayyám's Mathematics synonyms, Omar Khayyám's Mathematics pronunciation, Omar Khayyám's Mathematics translation, English dictionary definition of Omar Khayyám's Mathematics. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 37(3), 521–526. In most biographical extracts, he is referred to with religious honorifics such as Imām, The Patron of Faith (Ghīyāth al-Dīn), and The Evidence of Truth (Hujjat al-Haqq). He adds: "from at least the middle of the tenth century, according to Farabi's enumeration of the sciences, that this science, ‘ilm al-nujūm, was already split into two parts, one dealing with astrology and the other with theoretical mathematical astronomy. [74] On the other hand, Iranian experts such as Mohammad Ali Foroughi and Mojtaba Minovi rejected the hypothesis that Omar Khayyam was a Sufi. Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall (1774–1856) translated some of Khayyam's poems into German in 1818, and Gore Ouseley (1770–1844) into English in 1846, but Khayyam remained relatively unknown in the West until after the publication of Edward FitzGerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam in 1859. [55] Edward Granville Browne (1906) notes the difficulty of disentangling authentic from spurious quatrains: "while it is certain that Khayyam wrote many quatrains, it is hardly possible, save in a few exceptional cases, to assert positively that he wrote any of those ascribed to him". ... Set up the solution for the following cubics using the method of Omar Khayyam by identifying the solution as an intersection of two explicitly given conic sections. Out of these developments came the creation of trigonometry as a mathematical discipline, separate from its astronomical applications, by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī at his observatory in Marāgheh in the 13th century. Khayyam's contribution was in providing a systematic classification of musical scales, and discussing the mathematical relationship among notes, minor, major and tetrachords.[14]:198. [53]:436[34]:141 Shahrazuri (d. 1300) esteems him highly as a mathematician, and claims that he may be regarded as "the successor of Avicenna in the various branches of philosophic learning. [14] He also notes that biographers who praise his religiosity generally avoid making reference to his poetry, while the ones who mention his poetry often do not praise his religious character. This marks the beginning of spring or Nowrūz, a day in which the Sun enters the first degree of Aries before noon. The Jalali calendar is more accurate than the Gregorian calendar of 1582,[10]:659 with an error of one day accumulating over 5,000 years, compared to one day every 3,330 years in the Gregorian calendar. Hitchens, C. (2007). [34]:141 Recalibrating the calendar fixed the first day of the year at the exact moment of the passing of the Sun's center across vernal equinox. With an error of one day accumulating over 5,000 years, it was more precise than the. [14]:39, Boyle and Frye (1975) emphasize that there are a number of other Persian scholars who occasionally wrote quatrains, including Avicenna, Ghazzali, and Tusi. [40] The mathematician Woepcke (1851) who offered translations of Khayyam's algebra into French praised him for his "power of generalization and his rigorously systematic procedure. 1230) quotes two quatrains, one of which is the same as the one already reported by Razi. An additional quatrain is quoted by the historian Juvayni (Tarikh-i Jahangushay, ca. [3][4][5][6] He was born in Nishapur, in northeastern Persia, and was contemporary with the rule of the Seljuks around the time of the First Crusade. [18]:471 This was used by modern scholars to establish his date of birth as 18 May 1048. The culminating masterpiece was the astrolabe of the Syrian Ibn al-Shāṭir (1305–75), a mathematical tool that could be used to solve all the standard problems of spherical astronomy in five different ways. Variaciones Borges. He later lived in Samarkand and Eṣfahān, and his brilliant work there continued many of the main lines of development in 10th-century mathematics. That this was so is, of course, in no small measure due to what the Western mathematicians had learned from their Islamic predecessors during the preceding centuries. About 1000 ce the French scholar Gerbert of Aurillac, later Pope Sylvester II, introduced a type of abacus in which numbers were represented by stones bearing Arabic numerals. For a compound of gold adulterated with silver, he describes a method to measure more exactly the weight per capacity of each element. [6] For these he could not accomplish the construction of his unknown segment with compass and straight edge. (1932). [16] Although open to doubt, it has often been assumed that his forebears followed the trade of tent-making, since Khayyam means tent-maker in Arabic. The earliest such composer was Liza Lehmann. It enjoyed such success in the fin de siècle period that a bibliography compiled in 1929 listed more than 300 separate editions,[56] and many more have been published since.[57]. He was born in Persia on May 18, 1048 in the city of Nishapur which is now located in Iran. [75] The prose works believed to be Omar's are written in the Peripatetic style and are explicitly theistic, dealing with subjects such as the existence of God and theodicy. In 1911 the Jalali calendar became the official national calendar of Qajar Iran. ), Al-Ṭūsī’s observatory was supported by a grandson of Genghis Khan, Hülegü, who sacked Baghdad in 1258. As it had been foreseen by Khayyam, Aruzi found the tomb situated at the foot of a garden-wall over which pear trees and peach trees had thrust their heads and dropped their flowers so that his tombstone was hidden beneath them. [7] Khayyam also contributed to the understanding of the parallel axiom. Such novelties were known to very few. That postulate, however, was only one of the questions on the foundations of mathematics that interested Islamic scientists. ), FitzGerald's Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: Popularity and Neglect (pp. It involves weighing the compound both in air and in water, since weights are easier to measure exactly than volumes. XVIII. glish as Omar Khayyam, is best remembered as an astronomer and as the poet of the Rub a ‘iy a t, but he also published mathematical and philsophical works in a region near present-day Afghanistan. [61] In addition to his Persian quatrains, J. C. E. Bowen (1973) mentions that Khayyam's Arabic poems also "express a pessimistic viewpoint which is entirely consonant with the outlook of the deeply thoughtful rationalist philosopher that Khayyam is known historically to have been. Together with the trivium (grammar, logic, rhetoric), these subjects formed the seven liberal arts, which were taught in the monasteries, cathedral schools, and, from the 12th century on, universities and which constituted the principal university instruction until modern times. In a later study (1934–35) he further contends that Khayyam's use of Sufic terminology such as "wine" is literal and that he turned to the pleasures of the moment as an antidote to his existential sorrow: "Khayyam took refuge in wine to ward off bitterness and to blunt the cutting edge of his thoughts. By the 1880s, the book was extremely well known throughout the English-speaking world, to the extent of the formation of numerous "Omar Khayyam Clubs" and a "fin de siècle cult of the Rubaiyat". 1969; 52(1):30-45. Moritz Cantor considered it the most perfect calendar ever devised. Born on May 18, 1048, in Nishapur, the Khorasan province, Persia, Omar Khayyam was a prominent and influential Persian mathematician, astronomer, poet and philosopher whose major works had a tremendous impact on scholars in English-speaking countries even centuries later. In this he failed, but his question about the quadrilateral became the standard way of discussing the parallel postulate. A statue by Abolhassan Sadighi was erected in Laleh Park, Tehran in the 1960s, and a bust by the same sculptor was placed near Khayyam's mausoleum in Nishapur. Khayyam refutes the previous attempts by other mathematicians to prove the proposition, mainly on grounds that each of them had postulated something that was by no means easier to admit than the Fifth Postulate itself. [6] Displeased with Euclid's definition of equal ratios, he redefined the concept of a number by the use of a continuous fraction as the means of expressing a ratio. J. C. E. Bowen. Netz, R. (1999). Simidchieva, M. (2011). May 18 1048 Nishapur, – d. December 4 1131) was a Persian, mathematician, astronomer and poet. A completely new observatory was built to help Khayyám achieve this task. Victorian Poetry, 19(1), 49–64. [79] Khayyam's poems have been translated into many languages; many of the more recent ones are more literal than that of FitzGerald.[80]. FitzGerald's work at first was unsuccessful but was popularised by Whitley Stokes from 1861 onward, and the work came to be greatly admired by the Pre-Raphaelites. He was born on 18 May 1048 Nishabur, Khorasan. The mathematician and poet Omar Khayyam was born in Neyshābūr (in Iran) only a few years before al-Bīrūnī’s death. Of these the most important were the treatises by Boethius, who about 500 ce made Latin redactions of a number of Greek scientific and logical writings. E. D. R., & H. A. R. G. (1929). Albano, G. (2008). 1226–1283). n This treatise was extensively examined by Eilhard Wiedemann who believed that Khayyam's solution was more accurate and sophisticated than that of Khazini and Al-Nayrizi who also dealt with the subject elsewhere. In its original form it required a different plate of horizon coordinates for each latitude, but in the 11th century the Spanish Muslim astronomer al-Zarqallu invented a single plate that worked for all latitudes. The American historian of mathematics, David Eugene Smith, mentions that Saccheri "used the same lemma as the one of Tusi, even lettering the figure in precisely the same way and using the lemma for the same purpose". + We describe here the work of Omar Khayyam in the 12th century in solving algebraic equations and describe how his work may have influenced René Descartes in the 17th century. expresses orthodox views on Divine Unity in agreement with the author. [14]:6[59] This view is taken by Iranologists such as Arthur Christensen, H. Schaeder, Richard N. Frye, E. D. Ross,[60]:365 E.H. Whinfield[41]:40 and George Sarton. "[22]:104[26][14]:195, This treatise on Euclid contains another contribution dealing with the theory of proportions and with the compounding of ratios. 1201–1211), Qifti (Tārikh al-hukamā, 1255), and Hamdallah Mustawfi (Tarikh-i guzida, 1339). 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