ABŪ MANṢŪR ṬŪSĪ, mathematician. Apparently sometime during the 9th/15th century Abū Manṣūr wrote two works preserved in a manuscript at Florence: 1. Resāla fī ʿelm al-ḥesāb (“Epistle concerning computation”); 2. Resāla fi’l-ǰabr wa’l-moqābala (“Epistle concerning algebra”).

Bibliography:

Suter, Mathematiker, p. 199, no. 507.

(D. Pingree)

Originally Published: December 15, 1983

Last Updated: July 19, 2011

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