Yaqub ibn Tariq

Yaqub Ibn Tāriq was an 8th century Persian mathematician and astronomer.

Tariq flourished in Baghdad, and was known to be one of the greatest astronomers of his time. He probably met, in 767AD, at the court of al-Mansur, the Hindu Kankah (or Mankah?), who had brought there the Siddhanta. He wrote memoirs on the sphere (c. 777), on the division of the kardaja; on the tables derived from the Siddhanta.

He died in 796AD.

References

H. Suter: Die Mathematiker und Astronomer der Araber (p. 4, 1900)

See also

• List of Iranian scientists