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Ahmed ibn Yusuf al-Misri  
  
1173   01:38 صباحاً   date: 21-10-2015
Author : D V Schrader
Book or Source : Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography
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Born: 835 in Baghdad (now in Iraq)
Died: 912 in Cairo, Egypt

 

Ahmed ibn Yusuf's father Yusuf ibn Ibrahim was also a mathematician. Yusuf ibn Ibrahim lived in Baghdad but moved to Damascus in about 839. After a little while he moved again, taking his son Ahmed with him, and went to live in Cairo. Although we are far from certain about the date of Ahmed's birth it is believed to have been before the family moved to Damascus. Again it is unclear exactly when the family moved again to Cairo but as Ahmed became known as "al-Misri " meaning "the Egyptian" it is likely that he lived in Cairo from a fairly young age.

It is worth saying a word or two about Yusuf ibn Ibrahim, Ahmed's father, since scholars have had some difficulty in deciding which texts are due to the father, which to the son, or perhaps to joint work of the two. Yusuf ibn Ibrahim is known to have been a member of a group of scholars and this must have provided a strong intellectual environment for Ahmed. As well as a text on medicine, Yusuf is known to have written a work on astronomy and produced a collection of astronomical tables.

Ahmed was to achieve an important role in Egypt and to understand this we must examine how Egypt achieved relative independence from the Abbasid Caliph. The Caliphs had strengthened their armies in the 9th century with Turkish slaves and began to put their Turkish commanders into positions as governors of certain territories in the Empire. In 868 the Turkish general Babak was put in charge of Egypt and he chose to send his stepson Ahmad ibn Tulun there to take control. Ahmad ibn Tulun soon built up an army under his own control and managed to take control of the finances of the country. Although he never declared complete independence from the Caliph he governed Egypt, and after 878 also Syria which his armies conquered, as an autonomous region.

Ahmad ibn Tulun had a large family who formed the administration of Egypt. Ahmed ibn Yusuf was appointed as a private secretary to the family, in particular he was employed by one of Ahmad ibn Tulun's sons. In 884 Ahmad ibn Tulun died but his family continued to rule Egypt until the 905 when the Caliph sent an army to retake Egypt for the Empire. The period had been a fruitful one for Egypt during which agriculture, commerce and industry flourished. More importantly for Ahmed ibn Yusuf, the learning and scholarship of Baghdad was encouraged in Egypt, and he was able to pursue his mathematical researches while working for the Tulunid dynasty.

We know of a work by Ahmed on ratio and proportion, a book On similar arcs, a commentary on Ptolemy's Centiloquium and a book about the astrolabe. All these works have survived and historians are confident that they are indeed the work of Ahmed, but several other works which some claim to be due to him are probably by other authors.

Ahmed's work on ratio and proportion was translated into Latin by Gherard of Cremona. The book is largely a commentary on, and expansion of, Book 5 of Euclid's Elements. It was a carefully constructed work which influenced early European mathematicians such as Fibonacci. However it was not without itsdefects and Campanus of Novara pointed out a circular argument which occurs in Ahmed's reasoning.

The book On similar arcs was also translated into Latin and influenced European mathematicians. In the treatise Ahmed proves that similar arcs of circles can be equal and not equal. The proof, like that on ratio and proportion, is based on Euclid. This time it is Propositions 20 and 21 of Book III of Euclid'sElements which are the main tools used by Ahmed. The complete Arabic text of this treatise is given in [2].

Ahmed ibn Yusuf also gave methods to solve tax problems which appear in Fibonacci's Liber Abaci. He was also quoted by Bradwardine, Jordanus and Pacioli.


 

  1. D V Schrader, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). 
    http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830900059.html

Articles:

  1. H L L Busard and P S van Koningsveld, Der 'Liber de arcubus similibus' des Ahmed ibn Jusuf, Ann. of Sci. 30 (1973), 381-406.
  2. M Steinschneider, Yusuf ben Ibrahim und Ahmed ibn Yusuf, Bibliotheca mathematica (1888), 49-117.

 




الجبر أحد الفروع الرئيسية في الرياضيات، حيث إن التمكن من الرياضيات يعتمد على الفهم السليم للجبر. ويستخدم المهندسون والعلماء الجبر يومياً، وتعول المشاريع التجارية والصناعية على الجبر لحل الكثير من المعضلات التي تتعرض لها. ونظراً لأهمية الجبر في الحياة العصرية فإنه يدرّس في المدارس والجامعات في جميع أنحاء العالم. ويُعجب الكثير من الدارسين للجبر بقدرته وفائدته الكبيرتين، إذ باستخدام الجبر يمكن للمرء أن يحل كثيرًا من المسائل التي يتعذر حلها باستخدام الحساب فقط.وجاء اسمه من كتاب عالم الرياضيات والفلك والرحالة محمد بن موسى الخورازمي.


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تعتبر المعادلات التفاضلية خير وسيلة لوصف معظم المـسائل الهندسـية والرياضـية والعلمية على حد سواء، إذ يتضح ذلك جليا في وصف عمليات انتقال الحرارة، جريان الموائـع، الحركة الموجية، الدوائر الإلكترونية فضلاً عن استخدامها في مسائل الهياكل الإنشائية والوصف الرياضي للتفاعلات الكيميائية.
ففي في الرياضيات, يطلق اسم المعادلات التفاضلية على المعادلات التي تحوي مشتقات و تفاضلات لبعض الدوال الرياضية و تظهر فيها بشكل متغيرات المعادلة . و يكون الهدف من حل هذه المعادلات هو إيجاد هذه الدوال الرياضية التي تحقق مشتقات هذه المعادلات.