# Mathematician:Mathematicians/Sorted By Nation/Syria

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The army of those who have made at least one definite contribution to mathematics as we know it soon becomes a mob as we look back over history; 6,000 or 8,000 names press forward for some word from us to preserve them from oblivion, and once the bolder leaders have been recognised it becomes largely a matter of arbitrary, illogical legislation to judge who of the clamouring multitude shall be permitted to survive and who be condemned to be forgotten.
-- Eric Temple Bell: Men of Mathematics, 1937, Victor Gollancz, London

## Assyria

##### Iamblichus Chalcidensis $($$\text {c. 245} – \text {c. 325}$$)$

Assyrian philosopher of the neo-Platonist school.

His main involvement in mathematics concerns the fact that he may have known the $5$th perfect number, but there is no hard evidence of this fact.
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## Lebanon

##### Qusta ibn Luqa $($$\text {820} – \text {912}$$)$

Syrian Melkite Christian physician, philosopher, astronomer, mathematician and translator.

Known for translating many Greek texts in to Arabic.
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