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Yumn, Nazif ibn

Nazif ibn Yumn al-Qass, was a Persian mathematician of the middle ages.

He flourished under the Buwayhid sultan Adud al-dowleh; and died in 990AD. He was also a translator of Greek into Arabic. He thus translated the Tenth book of Euclid. (H. Suter: Mathematiker, 68, 1900).

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