Category:Abu al-Wafa Buzjani
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English: Abū al-Wafāʾ, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ismāʿīl ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Būzjānī (10 June 940 – 15 July 998) was a Persian mathematician and astronomer who worked in Baghdad. He made important innovations in spherical trigonometry, and his work on arithmetics for businessmen contains the first instance of using negative numbers in a medieval Islamic text.
فارسی: ابوالوفا محمد بوزجانی یا ابوالوفا محمد بن محمد بن یحیی بن اسماعیل بن عباس (۳۲۸–۳۸۸ه.ق) ریاضیدان و منجم بزرگ ایرانی.
Persian mathematician and astronomer (940–998) | |||||
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Date of birth | 10 June 940 Buzhgan (Abbasid Caliphate) ابو الوفا بوزجانی | ||||
Date of death | 15 July 998 Baghdad (Buyid dynasty) | ||||
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- Abu (given name)
- 940 births
- 998 deaths
- 990s deaths
- Deaths in Baghdad
- Astronomers from Iran
- Astronomers from Iraq
- Mathematicians from Iran
- Mathematicians from Iraq
- People of Torbat-e Jam
- People of Nishapur
- Astronomy of the Islamic Golden Age
- People of the Buyid dynasty
- Sunni Muslims from Iran
- Mathematicians of the Islamic Golden Age
- 10th-century people of Iran