Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi
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Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi
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Abū al-Ḥassan, Aḥmad Ibn Ibrāhīm, al-Uqlīdisī was a mathematician of the Islamic Golden Age, possibly from Damascus, who wrote the earliest surviving book on the use of decimal fractions with Hindu–Arabic numerals, Kitāb al-Fuṣūl fī al-Ḥisāb al-Hindī, in Arabic in 952. The book is well preserved in a single 12th century manuscript, but other than the author's name, original year of publication and the place (Damascus) we know nothing else about the author: after an extensive survey of extant ref
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10th century Islamic-world mathematician
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