Mathematics in medieval Islam

15 dated entries naming Mathematics in medieval Islam, drawn from 14 separate years between 850 CE and 1126 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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9th century

  • 850Abu Zayd al-Balkhi, Muslim mathematician (d. 934)source
  • 858Al-Battani, Muslim astronomer and mathematician (d. 929)source

10th century

  • 929Al-Batani, Muslim astronomer and mathematiciansource
  • 934Abu Zayd al-Balkhi, Abbasid mathematician and physiciansource
  • 940June 10 – Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani, Persian mathematician and astronomer (d. 998)source
  • 945Al-Sijzi, Persian astronomer and mathematician (d. 1020)source
  • 960Abu Nasr Mansur, Persian mathematician (approximate date)source
  • 989Al-Jayyānī, Arab scholar and mathematician (d. 1079)source
  • 998July 15 – Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani, Persian mathematician (b. 940)source

11th century

  • 1009Ibn Yunus, Fatimid astronomer and mathematiciansource
  • 1036Abu Nasr Mansur, Persian mathematician (b. 960)source
  • 1048May 18 – Omar Khayyam, Persian mathematician and poet (d. 1131)source
  • 1079Omar Khayyam, Persian mathematician and astronomer, calculates a 33 year calendar consisting of 25 ordinary years that include 365 days, and 8 leap years that include 366 days, the most accurate calculation of his time. Khayyam, in his Treatise on Demonstrations of Problems in Algebra, produces a complete classification of cubic equations and their geometric solutions (approximate date).source
  • 1079Al-Jayyānī, Arab scholar and mathematician (b. 989)source

12th century

  • 1126December 4 – Omar Khayyam, Persian mathematician (b. 1048)source

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