Hibat Allah Abu Nasr al-Farisi

Type Figure Region Iraq Time c. 980–1029 Also known as Hibat Allah Abu Nasr al-Farisi、al-Jayyani、al-Muhallili、希巴特·阿拉·巴格达迪

Hibat Allah Abu Nasr al-Farisi was an early 11th-century Islamic mathematician, from Jay near Isfahan, later active in Baghdad, who advanced the stud…

Timeline

c. 990–1010Jay · IsfahanReceived mathematical training in the Jay area of Persia, encountering problems of conic sections and geometric optics, laying the foundation for his later writings in Iraq.
1021–1029Baghdad · BaghdadWrote mathematical and geometric-optics works in Baghdad, studying the properties and construction of conics such as parabolas and hyperbolas, and engaging with the Iraqi scholarly environment of the time.

Sources

Abu Nasr ibn Farabi (mathematician) https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Abu_Nasr/
Hibat Allah Abu Nasr al-Farisi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibat_Allah_Abu_Nasr_al-Farisi