PERSON
Abū al-Wafāʾ Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá ibn Ismāʿīl ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Būzjānī
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أبو الوفاء محمد بن محمد بن يحيى بن إسماعيل بن العبّاس البوزجاني
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Abū al-Wafāʾ Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá ibn Ismāʿīl ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Būzjānī
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Būzjānī
Abū al-Wafāʾ Būzjānī
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328H/940J
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386H/997J
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256
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52681
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Authored Works
17 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
Arithmetic: Practical/ḥisāb
Kitāb fī mā yaḥtāju ilayhi al-kuttāb wa-al-ʿummāl wa-ghayruhum min ʿilm al-ḥisāb , كتاب فيما يحتاج إلیه الكُتّاب والعُمال وغیرهم من علم الحساب
Kitāb istikhrāj ḍilʿ al-mukaʿʿab wa-māl al-māl wa-mā yatarakkabu minhumā , کتاب إستخراج ضلع المکعّب ومال المال وما يترکّب منهما
Risālah fī jamʿ aḍlāʿ al-murabbaʿāt wa-al-mukaʿʿabāt wa-akhdh tafāḍulihā , رسالة في جمع أضلاع المربّعات والمکعّبات وأخذ تفاضلها
ِAl-Madkhal al-ḥifẓī ilá ṣināʿat al-arithmāṭīqā , المدخل الحفظي إلی صناعة الأرثماطيقا
Astronomy: General
Kitāb al-Majisṭī (Būzjānī) , كتاب المجسطي
Risālah fī iqāmat al-burhān ʿalá al-dāʾir min al-falak min qaws al-nahār wa-irtifāʿ niṣf wa-irtifāʿal-waqt , رسالة في إقامة البرهان علی الدائر من الفلك من قوس النهار وإرتفاع نصف وإرتفاع الوقت
Geometry: General
Jawāb ʿammā saʾalahu al-faqīh Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥārith fī misāḥat al-muthallathāt min ghayr istikhrāj al-ʿamūd wa-masqaṭ al-ḥajar , جواب عما سئله الفقيه أبو علي الحسن بن الحارث في مساحة المثلّثات من غير إستخراج العمود ومسقط الحجر
Kitāb fī mā yaḥtāju ilayhi al-ṣāniʿ min al-aʿmāl al-handasiyyah , کتاب في ما يحتاج إليه الصانع من الأعمال الهندسيّة
Kitāb tafsīr kitāb Uqlīdis , کتاب تفسير کتاب أقليدس
Masʾalah Arshimīdis fī misāḥat al-muthallath , مسئلة أرشميدس في مساحة المثلّث
Risālah fī al-nisab wa-al-taʿrīfāt , رسالة في النسب والتعريفات
MUSIC
Mukhtaṣar fī fann al-īqāʿ , مختصر في فن الإيقاع
Qānūn juzʾ al-taʾlīf li-Uqlīdis , قانون جزء التأليف لأقليدس
Number Theory
Risālah fī tarkīb ʿadad al-wafq fī al-murabbaʿāt , رسالة في تركيب عدد الوفق في المربّعات
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