Biodata hunayn ibn ishaq biography
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Abu Zayd Hunayn ibn Ishaq al-Ibadi
Biography
Hunayn ibn Ishaq is most famous as a translator. He was not a mathematician but trained in medicine and made his original contributions to the subject.Hunayn ibn ishaq contributions
However, as the leading translator in the House of Wisdom at one of the most remarkable periods of mathematical revival, his influence on the mathematicians of the time is of sufficient importance to merit his inclusion in this archive.
His son Ishaq ibn Hunayn, strongly influenced by his father, is famed for his Arabic translation of Euclid's Elements.
Hunayn's father was Ishaq, a pharmacist from Hira. The family were from a group who had belonged to the Syrian Nestorian Christian Church before the rise of Islam, and Hunayn was brought up as a Christian.
Hunayn became skilled in languages as a young man, in particular learning Arabic at Basra and also learning Syriac.
To continue his education Hunayn went to Baghdad to study medicine under the leading teacher of the time.
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