Monthly Archives: September 2014

Kashi (Kashani) the Mathematician

Al-Kashi was one of the best mathematicians in the Islamic world. He was born in 1380, in Kashan, in central Iran. In order to determine sin 1°, al-Kashi discovered the following formula often attributed to François Viète in the 16th … Continue reading

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