Issachar ben Mordecai ibn Susan
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Issachar ben Mordecai ibn Susan
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Issachar ben Mordecai ibn Susan was a Jewish mathematician who lived in Ottoman Palestine. At a young age, he moved from Morocco—perhaps from Fes—to Jerusalem, where he became a pupil of Levi ibn Ḥabib. From there he went to Safed, where, under great hardship, he continued his studies. But his increasing poverty induced him, in 1539, to leave Safed and seek a living elsewhere. At this time he commenced work on the calendar, giving, among other things, tables which embraced the years 5299–6000 an
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Jewish mathematician
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