Ibn Muʿādh al-Jayyānī
Mathematician, Deceased Person
0989 – 1079
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Who was Ibn Muʿādh al-Jayyānī?
Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muʿādh al-Jayyānī was a mathematician, Islamic scholar, and Qadi from Al-Andalus. Al-Jayyānī wrote important commentaries on Euclid's Elements and he wrote the first known treatise on spherical trigonometry as a discipline independent from astronomy.
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