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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 Muslim Arabmathematician 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

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi is the 743rd most popular mathematician (down from 647th in 2019), the 170th most popular biography from Syria (down from 153rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Syrian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi ranks 743 out of 1,004. Before him are Georges de Rham, Nicolas Fuss, Vera T. Sós, Wilhelm Killing, Vaughan Jones, and Solomon W. Golomb. After him are Gregory Chaitin, Charles Fefferman, David Gale, Stanisław Mazur, Giuseppe Veronese, and Guido Castelnuovo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 920, Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi ranks 8. Before him are Guntram the Rich, Henry I, Duke of Bavaria, 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 7. Before him are Widukind of Corvey, Yaropolk I of Kiev, Gunnhild, Mother of Kings, Movses Kaghankatvatsi, Thorvald Asvaldsson, and Herbert III of Omois.

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In Syria

Among people born in Syria, Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi ranks 170 out of 210. Before him are Burhan Ghalioun (1945), Rezin (null), Nazik al-Abid (1898), Issam Zahreddine (1961), Ameen Rihani (1876), and Suheil al-Hassan (1970). After him are Zakaria Tamer (1931), Ila-kabkabu (-1850), George Wassouf (1961), Ali Farzat (1951), Suat Hayri Ürgüplü (1903), and Abu Shama (1203).

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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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