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Abu al-Wafa Buzjani
Abū al-Wafāʾ Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ismāʿīl ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Būzjānī was a Persian mathematician and astronomer who worked in Baghdad. He made important innovations in spherical trigonometry, and his work on arithmetic for businessmen contains the first instance of using negative numbers in a medieval Islamic text.
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science · Persian mathematician and astronomer (940–998) · mathematician · astronomer · also Abu al-Wafa Buzjani, Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani, Abul Wafa, Abu l-Wafa, Abul-Wafa, Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī
Born 10 June 0940 · Died 15 July 0998 · Q298439
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Born 0940-06-10.
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