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Thábit ibn Qurra ibn Marwán al-Sabi al-Harrani (826, 1 Harrán, actual Turquía -901, Bagdad ). Su nombre indica que era procedente de la secta de los sabeos (en latín se denominaba a veces como Thebit ). Destacó en su época como un gran astrónomo, matemático y musicólogo, y especialmente como un gran traductor en estas materias.
La regla de Thábit ibn Qurra es un método para encontrar números amigos, descubierta en el siglo X por el matemático árabe Thábit ibn Qurra. Una generalización posterior de esta regla es la regla de Euler . La regla está dada en términos de números de Thabit.
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Thābit was born in Harran in Upper Mesopotamia, which at the time was part of the Diyar Mudar subdivision of the al-Jazira region of the Abbasid Caliphate. Thābit belonged to the Sabians of Harran, a Hellenized Semitic polytheistic astral religionthat still existed in ninth-century Harran. As a youth, Thābit worked as money changer in a marketplace...
Thābit's native language was Syriac, which was the Middle Aramaic variety from Edessa, and he was fluent in both Medieval Greek and Arabic. He was the author to multiple treaties. Due to him being trilingual, Thābit was able to have a major role during the Graeco-Arabic translation movement.He would also make a school of translation in Baghdad. Thā...
Thābit is believed to have been an astronomer of Caliph al-Mu'tadid. Thābit was able to use his mathematical work on the examination of Ptolemaic astronomy. The medieval astronomical theory of the trepidation of the equinoxes is often attributed to Thābit.[citation needed] But it had already been described by Theon of Alexandria in his comments of ...
In mathematics, Thābit derived an equation for determining amicable numbers. His proof of this rule is presented in the Treatise on the Derivation of the Amicable Numbers in an Easy Way. This was done while writing on the theory of numbers, extending their use to describe the ratios between geometrical quantities, a step which the Greeks did not ta...
In physics, Thābit rejected the Peripatetic and Aristotelian notions of a "natural place" for each element. He instead proposed a theory of motion in which both the upward and downward motions are caused by weight, and that the order of the universe is a result of two competing attractions (jadhb): one of these being "between the sublunar and celes...
Thābit was well known as a physician and produced a substantial number of medical treatises and commentaries. His works included general reference books such as al-Dhakhira fī ilm al-tibb ("A Treasury of Medicine"), Kitāb al-Rawda fi l–tibb ("Book of the Garden of Medicine"), and al-Kunnash ("Collection"). He also produced specific works on topics ...
Only a few of Thābit's works are preserved in their original form. 1. On the Sector-Figure which deals with Menelaus' theorem. 2. On the Composition of Ratios 3. Kitab fi 'l-qarastun(Book of the Steelyard) 4. Kitab fi sifat alwazn (Book on the Description of Weight)- Short text on equal-armed balance Additional works by Thābit include: 1. Kitāb al-...
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1. De Blois, F.C. (1960–2007). "Ṣābiʾ". In Bearman, P.; Bianquis, Th.; Bosworth, C.E.; van Donzel, E.; Heinrichs, W.P. (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_islam_COM_0952. 2. Drower, E.S. (1960). The Secret Adam: A Study of Nasoraean Gnosis. Oxford: Clarendon Press. OCLC 654318531. 3. Gingerich, Owen (1986). "Islamic Astronomy". Scientific American. 254 (4): 74–83. Bibcode:1986SciAm.254d..74G. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0486-74. ISSN 0036-8733. JSTOR 249759...
Rashed, Roshdi, ed. (2009a). Thābit ibn Qurra: Science and Philosophy in Ninth-Century Baghdad. Scientia Graeco-Arabica. Berlin: De Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9783110220797. ISBN 9783110220780.Francis J. Carmody: The astronomical works of Thābit b. Qurra. 262 pp. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1960.Rashed, Roshdi (1996). Les Mathématiques Infinitésimales du IXe au XIe Siècle 1: Fondateurs et commentateurs: Banū Mūsā, Ibn Qurra, Ibn Sīnān, al-Khāzin, al-Qūhī, Ibn al-Samḥ, Ibn Hūd. London.{{cit...Churton, Tobias. The Golden Builders: Alchemists, Rosicrucians, and the First Freemasons. Barnes and Noble Publishing, 2006.(836-901, Bagdad) Abu-l-Hassan Thábit ibn Qurra ibn Marwan fue un matemático y astrónomo, uno de los grandes sabios de Bagdad de la edad de oro del Islam. Nació hacia el año 836 en Harran (hoy en día Turquía) en el seno de una familia rica.
11 de abr. de 2024 · Thābit ibn Qurrah (born c. 836, Syria—died 901, Baghdad, Iraq) was an Arab mathematician, astronomer, physician, and philosopher, a representative of the flourishing Arab-Islamic culture of the 9th century. Thābit was a scion of a prominent family settled in Ḥarrān, a city noted as the seat of a Hellenized Semitic astronomical ...
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Thábit ibn Qurra ibn Marwán al-Sabi al-Harrani (826, Harrán, actual Turquía -901, Bagdad ). Su nombre indica que era procedente de la secta de los sabeos (en latín se denominaba a veces como Thebit ). Destacó en su época como un gran astrónomo, matemático y musicólogo, y especialmente como un gran traductor en estas materias.
18 February 0901. Baghdad, (now in Iraq) Summary. Thabit ibn Qurra was an important Islamic mathematician who worked on number theory, astronomy and statics. View two larger pictures. Biography. Thabit ibn Qurra was a native of Harran and a member of the Sabian sect.
