ISMI Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative

TEXT

[Treatise on the Solution of a Cubic Equation by Means of Conic Sections]

Title (translit)

[Treatise on the Solution of a Cubic Equation by Means of Conic Sections]
Alias

[Treatise on the Solution of a Cubic Equation by Means of Conic Sections]
Author

Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Khāzin al-Khurāsānī
Language

Arabic
Subject

Mathematics: General
Notes

(From MAMS2): The work is mentioned by al-Khayyām. The equation proposed in this work was composed by al-Māhānī.
ismi_id

50523

Literature References

Rozenfeld, Boris, and Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu. 2003. Mathematicians, Astronomers and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilisation and Their Works (7th-19th c.). Istanbul: Research Centre for Islamic History, Art, and Culture.

P. 82 (no. 194), M10.

Khalifa, Hajji. 1835. Hajji Khalifa. Kashf Al-ẓunūn ʿan asāmī Al-Kutub waʾl-funūn = Lexicon Bibliographicum Et Encyclopaedicum a Mustafa Ben Abdallah Katib Jelebi Dicto Et Nomine Haji Khalfa Celebrato Compositum. Ed. Gustav Flügel. 7 vol. Leipzig-London: R. Bentley for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.

Vol. 2, p. 584.