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Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi

920 - 980

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Abū al-Ḥassan, Aḥmad Ibn Ibrāhīm, al-Uqlīdisī (Arabic: أبو الحسن أحمد بن ابراهيم الإقليدسي, fl. 952) was a mathematician of the Islamic Golden Age, possibly from Damascus, who wrote the earliest surviving book on the use of decimal fractions with Hindu–Arabic numerals, Kitāb al-Fuṣūl fī al-Ḥisāb al-Hindī (The Book of Chapters on Hindu Arithmetic), in Arabic in 952. The book is well preserved in a single 12th century manuscript, but other than the author's name, original year of publication (341 AH, 952/3 AD) and the place (Damascus) we know nothing else about the author: after an extensive survey of extant reference material, mathematical historian Ahmad Salīm Saʿīdān, who discovered the manuscript in 1960, could find no other mention of him. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi has received more than 70,698 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi is the 647th most popular mathematician (up from 747th in 2019), the 153rd most popular biography from Syria and the 2nd most popular Syrian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi ranks 647 out of 1,004. Before him are Vera T. Sós, Claude Chevalley, Ludwig Bieberbach, David Gregory, Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt, and Kātyāyana. After him are Johann Karl Burckhardt, Efim Zelmanov, Fritz Noether, Grégoire de Saint-Vincent, Charles Dupin, and Jacobus Golius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 920, Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi ranks 8. Before him are Henry I, Duke of Bavaria, Guntram the Rich, Athanasius the Athonite, Fulk II, Count of Anjou, Dunash ben Labrat, and Robert of Vermandois.  Among people deceased in 980, Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi ranks 6. Before him are Yaropolk I of Kiev, Widukind of Corvey, Movses Kaghankatvatsi, Gunnhild, Mother of Kings, and Thorvald Asvaldsson. After him is Herbert III of Omois.

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In Syria

Among people born in Syria, Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi ranks 153 out of 210. Before him are Abu Shama (1203), Jacob of Edessa (633), Ameen Rihani (1876), George Sabra (1947), Wafa Sultan (1958), and Rafik Schami (1946). After him are Khalid al-Azm (1903), Ali Abdullah Ayyoub (1952), Jamil Mardam Bey (1893), Ila-kabkabu (-1850), Nazik al-Abid (1898), and Ignatius IV of Antioch (1920).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Syria

Among mathematicians born in Syria, Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi ranks 2. Before him are Ibn al-Shatir (1304).

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