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Ibn Yaḥyā al-Maghribī al-Samawʾal (Arabic: السموأل بن يحيى المغربي; c.
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1130 – c. 1180) commonly known as Samau'al al-Maghribi was a Muslim mathematician, astronomer and physician of Jewish descent.[1] Though born to a Jewish family, he converted to Islam in 1163 after he had a dream telling him to do so.[2] His father was a Jewish Rabbi from Morocco.[3]
Mathematics
Al-Samaw'al wrote the mathematical treatise al-Bahir fi'l-jabr, meaning "The brilliant in algebra", at the age of nineteen.
He also used the two basic concepts of mathematical induction, though without stating them explicitly.
He used this to extend results for the binomial theorem up to n=12 and Pascal's triangle previously given by al-Karaji.[4]
Polemics
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He also wrote a famous polemic book in Arabic debating Judaism known as Ifḥām al-Yahūd (Confutation of the Jews) or in Spanish Epistola Samuelis Maro