Ibn Sahl

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Ibn Sahl (full name: Abū Saʿd al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Sahl Persian: ابوسعدالعلاءِبن سعل (ابن سهل); c. 940–1000) was a mathematician and physicist of the Islamic Golden Age, associated with the Buyid court of Baghdad.

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