Abū al-Wafāʾ Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyỳ ibn Ismāʿīl ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Būzjānī

PERSON

Abū al-Wafāʾ Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá ibn Ismāʿīl ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Būzjānī

Name (arabic)	أبو الوفاء محمد بن محمد بن يحيى بن إسماعيل بن العبّاس البوزجاني
Name (translit)	Abū al-Wafāʾ Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá ibn Ismāʿīl ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Būzjānī
Alias	Būzjānī Abū al-Wafāʾ Būzjānī
Born	328H/940J
Died	386H/997J
Born in	Būzjān
Lived in	Baghdad Būzjān
Died in	Baghdad
Student of	Abū al-ʿAlā ibn Abī al-Ḥusayn Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Zayd al-Kātib ibn Karnīb Abū al-Ḥasan Thābit ibn Qurrah al-Ḥarrānī al-Ṣābiʾ
Teacher of	Abū Naṣr Manṣūr ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿIrāq al-Jaʿdī
Number in MAMS	256
Biography URL	http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Buzjani_BEA.htm
ismi_id	52681

Authored Works

4 works:

Algebra

Kitāb tafsīr kitāb al-Khwārizmī fī al-jabr wa-al-muqābalah , کتاب تفسير کتاب الخوارزمي في الجبر والمقابلة

Kitāb tafsīr kitāb Diyūfanṭus fī al-jabr , کتاب تفسير کتاب ديوفنطس في الجبر

Kitāb tafsīr kitāb Ibarkhus fī al-jabr , کتاب تفسير کتاب إبرخس في الجبر

Geometry: General

Kitāb tafsīr kitāb Uqlīdis , کتاب تفسير کتاب أقليدس

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