Mathematician:Qusta ibn Luqa

Mathematician

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

Known for translating many Greek texts in to Arabic.

Nationality

Syrian

History

• Born: 820 CE in Baalbek, Abbasid Caliphate, now Baalbek District, Beqaa Governorate, Lebanon
• Died: 912 CE in Armenia

Publications

• Risalah fī Auja Al Niqris
• Rislah fī al Nabidh
• Kitāb fī al‐ʿamal bi‐ʾl-kura al‐nujūmiyya
• Hayʾat al‐aflāk (work on Celestial Bodies)
• Kitāb al‐Madkhal ilā ʿilm al‐nujūm
• Kitāb al‐Madkhal ilā al‐hayʾa wa‐ḥarakāt al‐aflāk wa‐ʾl‐kawākib
• Kitāb fī al‐ʿamal bi‐ʾl‐asṭurlāb al‐kurī
• Kitāb fī al‐ʿamal bi‐ʾl‐kura dhāt al‐kursī
• The Introduction to Geometry (English Translation)

• Translation of the Arithmetica of Diophantus

Also known as

Variously transliterated, for example Qust¸a ibn Luqa.

Latinised as Costa ben Luca or Constabulus

Full name: Qusta Ibn Luqa al-Ba'albakki

In Arabic: قُسطا ابن لُوقا البعلبکی