Ibn al-Yasamin

Who was Ibn al-Yasamin?

Abu Mohammed Abdallah ibn Mohammed ibn Hajjaj a-Adrini was a Moroccan mathematician. His place of birth is unknown, but he received his education in Sevilla, Spain. Little is known of his personal life, except that he was born into a Berber family.

His most important work is Talqih al-afkar bi rushum huruf al-ghubar. It is a book of two hundred folios about the science of calculation and geometry. He also wrote three poems, one on algebra, one on irrational quadratic numbers and one on the method of false position.