Al-Isfahani

Abalphat of Isfahan, actually Abu- l -Fath Mahmud ibn Muhammad ibn Qasim ibn Fadl al - Isfahani (Persian أبو الفتح محمود ابن محمد ابن قاسم ابن فضل الاسفهاني ), also Abalphatus Asphahanensis, was a Persian mathematician who dealt in particular with geometry and who lived in the second half of the 10th century. A copy of his creation Arab editing the books of Apollonius of Perge on conic sections ( " Konica "), which Cardinal Ferdinando I de ' Medici is said to have received from the Patriarch of Antioch Ignatius Nemet Allah I, in 1661 in Florence by Abraham Ecchellensis Giovanni Alfonso Borelli and edited. Herein found for the first time the hitherto unknown in Europe 5-7 books of Apollonius.