Al-Karadži

Abū Bakr ibn Muḥammad ibn al Ḥusayn al-Karajī (ilial-Karkhī; Karadž ili manje izglednije Karh, cca. 953 – cca. 1029) bio je perzijski matematičar i inženjer. Najpoznatiji je po tri knjige Al-Badi' fi'l-hisab (Predivna o računanju), Al-Fakhri fi'l-jabr wa'l-muqabala (Slavna o algebri) i Al-Kafi fi'l-hisab (Dovoljna o računanju). Uglavnom se bavio algebrom i polinomima. Njegovi izvorni tekstovi nisu sačuvani.

Literatura i vanjske veze

• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F. „Abu Bekr ibn Muhammad ibn al-Husayn Al-Karaji”. MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.  (en)
• J. Christianidis. Classics in the History of Greek Mathematics, p. 260
• Carl R. Seaquist, Padmanabhan Seshaiyer, and Dianne Crowley. "Calculation across Cultures and History" Arhivirano 2006-09-09 na Wayback Machine-u (Texas College Mathematics Journal 1:1, 2005; pp 15–31) [PDF]
• Matthew Hubbard and Tom Roby. "The History of the Binomial Coefficients in the Middle East" Arhivirano 2006-09-12 na Wayback Machine-u (from "Pascal's Triangle from Top to Bottom")
• Fuat Sezgin. Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums (1974, Leiden: E. J. Brill)
• James J. Tattersall. Elementary Number Theory in Nine Chapters, p. 32
• Mariusz Wodzicki. "Early History of Algebra: a Sketch" (Math 160, Fall 2005) [PDF]
• "al-Karaji" Arhivirano 2007-10-28 na Wayback Machine-u — Encyclopædia Britannica Online (4 April 2006)
• F. Woepcke, in Extrait du Fakhri, traité d'Algèbre par Abou Bekr Mohammed Ben Alhacan Alkarkhi (Paris, 1853)