Muhammad al-Baghdadi

De superficierum divisionibus, 1570

Muhammad al-Baghdadi (late 10th century ? - 1037) also called Machometus Bagdedinus in Latin or ﻣﺤﻤﺪ ﺍﻟﺒﻐﺪﺍﺩﻱ was an Iraqi Arab mathematician.[1][2]

His work De superficierum divizionibus liber contains the only trace of Euclid's work in the Latin tradition. The first edition was printed in 1570, edited by John Dee and Federico Commandino.[3]

Works

  • Baghdadi, Muhammad al- (1570). De superficierum divisionibus (in Latin). Pisauri: Girolamo Concordia.

References

  1. ↑ "Muhammad al-Baghdadi in CERL Thesaurus".
  2. ↑ lil-Yūniskū, Egypt Shuʻbah al-Qawmīyah; (Egypt), Markaz Tabādul al-Qiyam al-Thaqāfīyah (1977). Islamic and Arab contribution to the European Renaissance. General Egyptian Book Organization.
  3. ↑ "La civiltà islamica: antiche e nuove tradizioni in matematica. La rinascita degli studi geometrici nel mondo latino in Sotira della Scienza (2002)".
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