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al-Jayyani's The book of unknown arcs of a sphere, the first treatise on spherical trigonometry. The work, which is published together with a Spanish translation and a commentary in , contains formulae for right-handed triangles, the general law of sines, and the solution of a spherical triangle by
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points out that while it was possible in pre-Islamic mathematics to compute the magnitudes of a spherical figure, in principle, by use of the table of chords and Menelaus' theorem, the application of the theorem to spherical problems was very difficult in practice. Al-Jayyānī's work on spherical
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There is strong consensus in attributing the authorship of a manuscript about the duration of twilight to him. The short treatise
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Sabra, A.I. (1967). "The Authorship of the Liber de crepusculis, an Eleventh-Century Work on Atmospheric Refraction".
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as numbers" and "method of solving a spherical triangle when all sides are unknown" are likely to have influenced
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Smith, A. Mark (1992). "The Latin Version of lbn Mu c ādh's Treatise "On Twilight and the Rising of Clouds"".
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Allacen arabis uetustissimi liber de crepusculis, Gerardo Cremonensi interprete
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means of the polar triangle. Proofs are sometimes only given as sketches.
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Little is known about his life. Confusion exists over the identity of
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The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing
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Book on the Measurement of Plane and Spherical Figures
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Kennedy, E. S. (1969), "The History of Trigonometry",
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Index

Ibn Muʿādh al-Jayyānī
Ibn Mu'adh (disambiguation)
Jaén
Al-Andalus
Euclid
al-Khwarizmi
Islamic Golden Age
Mathematics
Astronomy
Arabic
Cordova
Al-Andalus
Jaén
Al-Andalus
Arab
mathematician
Islamic scholar
Qadi
Al-Andalus
Euclid
Elements
spherical trigonometry
ibn Bashkuwal
Qur'anic
Philologist
inheritance laws
Cairo
spherical trigonometry
Menelaus of Alexandria
Menelaus' theorem

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