PERSON

Jaʿfar ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Makkī

Name (arabic)

جعفر بن علي بن محمد المكّي

Name (translit)

Jaʿfar ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Makkī

Alias

Jaʿfar al-Makkī

Flourished

235H/850J

Lived in

Number in MAMS

240

ismi_id

54130

Authored Works

2 works:

Geometry: General

Kitāb fī al-handasah (al-Makkī) , كتاب في الهندسة
Risālah fī al-mukaʿʿab , رسالة في المكعّب

References

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Matvievskaya, Galina, and Boris Rozenfeld. 1983. Matematiki I Astronomy Musulmanskogo Srednevekovya I Ikh Trudi, VIII-XVII Vv [Mathematicians and Astronomers of the Muslim Middle Ages and Their Works, VIII-XVII Centuries]. 3 vol. Moscow: Nauka.

Vol. 2, pp. 172-73 (no. 156).

Sezgin, Fuat. 1974. Geschichte Des Arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), Vol. 5, Mathematik Bis Ca. 430 H. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

P. 302.

Ṭūqān Qadrī. 1963. Turāth Al-ʿArab Al-ʿilmī Fī Al-riyāḍīyāt Wa-Al-Falak. Cairo: Dār al-Qalam.

P. 267.

Suter, Heinrich. 1900. Die Mathematiker Und Astronomen Der Araber Und Ihre Werke.. Abhandlungen Zur Geschichte Der Mathematischen Wissenschaften Mit Einschluss Ihrer Anwendungen, Vol. 10. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner.

P. 68.

Suter, Heinrich. 1892. “Das Mathematiker-Verzeichniss Im Fihrist Des Ibn Abi Ja’qub an-Nadim”. Abhandlungen für Geschichte Der Mathematischen Wissenschaften 6.

P. 38.

Ibn al-Nadīm, Muḥammad. 1871. Kitāb Al-Fihrist, Ed. Gustav Flügel. 2 vol. Leipzig: Vogel.

P. 282.