Ibn Fallus

Shams ad-Din
Ibn Fallus
al-Ḥanafī al-Māridīnī
Born
Ismāʽīl ibn-Ibrāhīm ibn-Ġāzī ibn-ʽAlī ibn Muhammad

1194
Mardin
Died1252 (aged 57–58)
Other nameIsmāʽīl ibn-Fullūs
OccupationMathematician

Shams ad-Dīn Abû’t-Tāhir Ismāʽīl ibn-Ibrāhīm ibn-Ġāzī ibn-ʽAlī ibn Muhammad al-Ḥanafī al-Māridīnī (1194–1252),[1] often called Ismāʽīl ibn-Fullūs or Ibn Fallus, was an Arab Egyptian mathematician of the Islamic Golden Age. Whilst on pilgrimage to Mecca, he tells of an epitome he wrote on number theory (extant in manuscript), which building on the work of Nicomachus, added three new perfect numbers (33,550,336; 8,589,869,056; and 137,438,691,328) to the four already discovered by the Greeks.

His table also included seven other supposed perfect numbers which are now known to be incorrect. Roshdi Rashed believes the errors emerged from over-reliance on Nicomachus' method.[2]

This work did not reach Europe, and these three perfect numbers were only rediscovered there during the Renaissance, including by Pietro Cataldi.[3]

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References

  1. ^ Brentjes, Sonja (1988). "The First Perfect Numbers and Three Types of Amicable Numbers in a Manuscript on Elementary Number Theory by Ibn Fallûs". Erdem, vol. 5, no. 11. pp. 468–469.
  2. ^ Rashed, Roshdi (1994). The Development of Arabic Mathematics: Between Arithmetic and Algebra. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic. pp. 328–329.
  3. ^ Scott, Paul. "Just Perfect, part 2". The Australian Mathematics Teacher, vol. 63, no. 2. p. 3.

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