Abraham bar Hiyya Ha-Nasi
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This resource, from the Illuminations-reviewed History of Mathematics Archive, features biographical information about Jewish mathematician and astronomer Abraham bar Hiyya Ha-Nasi. Bar Hiyya is famed for his book "Treatise on Measurement and Calculation," which contains the complete solution of the general quadratic--the first text in Europe to give such a solution. Links to biographies of other mathematicians are also available on this page.
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