Mīrzā Abū Turāb Naţanzī and A Novel Attitude to the Problem of Trisection of An Angle
Subject Areas : The Journal of Islamic History and Civilisation
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فاطمه دوست قرین
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Keywords: sciences in Qajarid era, Mīrzā Abū Turāb, Trisection
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, of An Angle,
Abstract :
Qajarid era was simultaneous with huge social and cultural changesin Iran, including the teaching of exact sciences in modern schoolsrather than traditional seminaries; we encounter a religious scholar,who was expert in both fields of rational and traditional sciences,called Mīrzā Abū Turāb Naţanzī. In a treatise entitled Dar Ma، rifatiWatar-i Thulth-i ķaws-i Ma، lūma al-Watar (on the knowledge ofthe chord of one-third of an arc with a known chord), he presented anovel numerical method for trisecting an angle. This article is tosurvey Mīrzā Abū Turāb’s biography and works, and introduce histreatise and method.
