Jacques Sesiano
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LOCATION: CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Lecturer at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. Author of Books IV to VII of Diophantus' Arithmetica: In the Arabic Translation Attributed to Qusta Ibn Luqa.
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Al-Karajī was a mathematician and engineer who held an official position in Baghdad (c. 1010–15), perhaps culminating in the position of vizier, during which time he wrote his three main works, Al-Fakhrī fī’l-jabr wa’l-muqābala (“The Glorious [Work] on Algebra”), Al-Badīʿ fī’l-ḥisāb (“The Wonderful…
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