Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn ‘Abd al-Bāqī al-Baghdadi al-Ansārī al-Kaabī (1050-1141)
(Arabic: محمد بن عبد الباقي البغدادي)
also known as Qadi al-Maristan, was
an Arab jurist and mathematician.
He was the author of a
commentary on the tenth book of Euclid's Elements, which was translated
by Gerard of Cremona as "Liber judei super decimum Euclidis". The
work was popular in Europe with several Latin manuscripts still extant.
Other works include:
· Jadawil al-Jayb
al-Mahlul al-Daqiqa (detailed tables of sines for each minute),
· Risala fi Taqrib Usul
al-Hisab fi' al-Jabr wa-‘l-Muqabala (Treatise on approximation of principles of
arithmetic)
· Kitab al-Tabaqat fi
Sharh al-Misaha (book on measurements)
Muhammad Ibn ‘Abd
al-Bāqī has been identified by modern scholars with the Latin name, Machometus
Bagdedinus, although this identification is sometimes disputed.
Machometus Bagdedinus, was an Arab author whose translated work, De
superficierum divizionibus liber, contains the only trace of Euclid's
work "On Divisions of Figures" in the Latin tradition. The work was
later printed in 1570, edited by John Dee and Federico
Commandino.
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