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Abū Kāmil Shujāʻ ibn Aslam

LC control no.n 84804664
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Personal name headingAbū Kāmil Shujāʻ ibn Aslam
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Variant(s)Shujāʻ ibn Aslam
Hāsib al-Misrī, Abū Kāmil Shujāʻ ibn Aslam
أبو كامل شجاع بن أسلم
Associated countryEgypt
Birth date0850
Death date0930
Profession or occupationMathematicians
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Found inLCCN 65-12107: His The algebra of Abū Kāmil, 1966 (hdg.: Abū Kāmil Shujāʻ ibn Aslam; usage: Abū Kāmil)
LC authority card (hdg.: Abū Kāmil Shujāʻ ibn Aslam; usage: Abū Kāmil; Abū Kāmil Shujāʻ ibn Aslam ibn Muḥammad ibn Shujāʻ; Abū Kāmil Shudjāʻ b. Aslam; Šu̇ǧāʻ b. Aslam b.M.b.; Šuǧāʻ a. Kāmil al-Miṣrī; Shujāʻ ibn Aslam)
Dictionary of African Biography, accessed October 16, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Abu, Kamil Shuja; al-Hasib al-Misri, the Egyptian Calculator; Abu Kamil Shuja' ibn Aslam ibn Muhammad ibn Shuja; mathematician; born 850; a direct successor in the development of algebra to al-Khwarizmi; he is known primarily for his works in algebraic and numerical theories, of which three of the surviving texts are known to have formed important foundations in the development of algebraic systems: Algebra, On Measurement and Geometry, and Book of Rare Things in the Art of Calculation; died 930)