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Al-IsfahaniAbu-l-Fath Mahmud ibn Mohammed ibn Qasim ibn Fadl al-Isfahani was a 10th century Persian mathematician.He flourished probably around 982AD in Isfahan. He gave a better Arabic edition of the Conics of Apollonius and commented on the first books. The Conics had been translated a century before by Hilal al-Himsi (books 1-4) and Thabit ibn Qurra (books 5-7) Source H. Suter: Die Mathematiker und Astronomen der Araber (98, 1900). See also
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