Al-Kuhi

Abū Sahl Wayjan ibn Rustam al-Qūhī (al-Kūhī; perzijski: ابوسهل بیژن کوهی‎ Abusahl Bijan-e Koohi) bio je perzijski matematičar, fizičar i astronom. Bio je rodom iz Kuha (ili Quha), područja u Tabaristanu (Amol), a djelovao u Bagdadu u 10. vijeku. Smatra se jednim od najvećih muslimanskih geomatara te mu se pripisuju brojni matematički i astronomski tekstovi iz tog doba.

Gravira al-Quhijevog kompasa

Bio je vođa astrona koji su 988. djelovali i opservatoriji koju je u Bagdadu podigao buijdski vladar Sharaf al-Dawla. Poznat je kao autor traktata o astrolabu.

Literatura

• Rashed, Roshdi (1996). Les Mathématiques Infinitésimales du IXe au XIe Siècle 1: Fondateurs et commentateurs: Banū Mūsā, Ibn Qurra, Ibn Sīnān, al-Khāzin, al-Qūhī, Ibn al-Samḥ, Ibn Hūd. London.  Reviews: Seyyed Hossein Nasr (1998) in Isis 89 (1) pp. 112-113; Charles Burnett (1998) in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 61 (2) p. 406.
• M. Steinschnieder, Lettere intorno ad Alcuhi a D. Bald. Boncompagni (Roma, 1863)
• Suter, Die Mathematiker und Astronomen der Araber (75-76, 1900).
• Jan Hogendijk: Two beautiful geometrical theorems by Abu Sahl Kuhi in a 17th century Dutch translation, Ta'rikh-e Elm: Iranian Journal for the History of Science 6 (2008), 1-36
• John Lennart Berggren, Hogendijk: The Fragments of Abu Sahl al-Kuhi's Lost Geometrical Works in the Writings of al-Sijzi, in: C. Burnett, J.P. Hogendijk, K. Plofker, M. Yano (eds): Studies in the History of the Exact Sciences in Honour of David Pingree, Leiden: Brill, 2003, pp. 605-665

Vanjske veze

• Berggren, Len (2007). "Kūhī: Abū Sahl Wījan ibn Rustam [Wustam] al‐Kūhī [al‐Qūhī]". In Thomas Hockey et al. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. New York: Springer. p. 659. ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0. http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Kuhi_BEA.htm.  (PDF version)
• O'Konor, Džon; Robertson, Edmund. "Abu Sahl Waijan ibn Rustam al-Quhi". Mektjutor arhiva istorije matematike. http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Quhi.html.  (engleski)

• Dold-Samplonius, Yvonne (2008) [1970-80]. "Al-Qūhī (or Al-Kūhī), Abū Sahl Wayjan Ibn Rustam". Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Encyclopedia.com. http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830903554.html.