Abul Wefa
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Middle Ages
- Categories: Science
- Subcategories: Mathematics, Mathematicians, Scientists, Astronomy, Astronomers, Cosmology
- Curriculum: Middle Eastern History
Article abstract: Abul Wefa played a major role in the development of sines and cosines as they apply to the field of trigonometry. These he used to correct astronomical calculations carried forward from classical into Islamic times.
Early Life
Born in 940, during the reign of the ’Abbasid caliph al-Mutaqqi, Abul Wefa lived during a period of extraordinary cultural and intellectual productivity. His own fields of accomplishment, mathematics and astronomy, were already widely recognized as essential elements of high Islamic civilization. Very little...
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