Ibn Hamza al-Maghribi
Algerian mathematician / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alī ibn Walī Ibn Hamza al-Maghribi (Arabic: علي بن ولي بن حمزة المغربي), also known as Ibn Hamza Al-Gaza'iri[1] was a 16th-century Algerian mathematician. He was born between 1554-1575[2] in Algiers in Ottoman Algeria and died around 1611, during the rule of Murad III.[3]
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Born | Between 1554 and 1575 Algiers, Regency of Algiers |
Died | 1611 Mecca |
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Main interests | Mathematics |
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His most important work was Tuhfat al-a'dad fi-l-hisab (The Ornament of Numbers), which discusses some form of the concept of the logarithm.[4]