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oes) ”
1m The father of algebra
im Algebra derived its name from
his work, Hisab Al-Jabr wal
Mugabalah (Book of Calcula-
tions, Restoration and Reduc-
tion)
m= Mathematicians used it all over
the world until the sixteenth cen-
tury,
AL-KHARKHI &
(dates?) Baghdad»
1 Contributions in arithmetic, alge-
bra and geometry.
His work ‘AL-Kafi fi Al-Hisab’
(Essentials of Arithmetic) covers
the rules of computation.
ve
(973-1050 CE)
Contributed to the foundation of
modern trigonometry.
Aphilosopher, geographer, as-
tronomer, physicist and math-
ematician,
600 years before Galileo, Al
Biruni discussed the theory of
the earth rotating about its own
axis.
rYE-y Nay.
Cee sa ed
the greatest Muslim astronomer
and mathematician
The father of trigonometry,
m Raised trigonometry to higher
levels and computed the first
table of cotangents.
Vey
(801-873 CE)
= Contributions to arithmetic like
writing eleven texts on num
bers and numerical analysis.
= Founder of modern cryptogra-
phy.
1m Specialist in coding and decod-
ing of messages