'Abd al-Hamīd ibn Turk

Abd al- Hamid ibn Turk ( 830 ), also known as Abd al - Hamid ibn Wase ibn Turk al - Jili, was a Turkic Muslim mathematician of the 9th century.

Biography

Little is known about the biography of Ibn Turks. The two in the 10th century and al - Qifti written by Ibn an - Nadim in the 12th century reports of Ibn Turk contradict each other. Because of the reproduced by al - al - Jili Qifti name, it is believed that Ibn Turk came from the Iranian province of Gilan today.

Works

Ibn Turk authored a book on algebra entitled Kitâb al - ǧabr wa `al - muqabala. From this chapter, entitled Logical necessities is only preserved in mixed equations. It deals with the solution of quadratic equations, where Ibn Turk also of geometric representations for demonstration and proof made ​​use purposes. The illustrated in Logical necessities in mixed equations geometric proof can be found in unvollkommenerer form in Al- Chwarizmis work al - ǧabr, so go some historians of the algebra was already developed at the time of two mathematicians, than previously thought.