PERSON

Ayyūb ibn Sulaymān al-Baṣrī

Name (arabic)

أيّوب بن سليمان البصري

Name (translit)

Ayyūb ibn Sulaymān al-Baṣrī

Flourished

183H/800J

Born in

Lived in

Notes

(From MAMS2): A 9th-century mathematician from Baṣra who worked on inheritance.

Number in MAMS

38

ismi_id

184851

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. 21 (no. 38).

Hughes, Barnabas. 1994. “Problem-Solving by Ajjūb Al-Baṣrī, an Early Algebraist”. Journal for the History of Arabic Science 10: 31-39.
Ruska, Julius. 1917. Zur ältesten Arabischen Algebra Und Rechenkunst. Heidelberg: C. Winter.

Pp. 21-23.

Sarton, George. Introduction to the History of Science. 3 vols. in 5 vol. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, for the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

Vol. 2, p. 187.

Kâtip, Çelebi. Kashf Al-ẓunūn ʿan asāmī Al-Kutub Wa-Al-funūn. 2 vol. Istanbul: Maṭabiʻ Wikālat al-Maʿārif al-Jalīlah; Milli Eg‐itim Bakanlig‐i Yayinlari.

Vol. 4, p. 398.