• Thumbnail for Ibn al-Haytham
    Ibn al-Haytham (redirect from Ibn Alhazen)
    Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham (Latinized as Alhazen; /ælˈhæzən/; full name Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham أبو علي، الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم; c. 965 –...
    135 KB (15,027 words) - 07:42, 10 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alhazen's problem
    Alhazen's problem, also known as Alhazen's billiard problem, is a mathematical problem in geometrical optics first formulated by Ptolemy in 150 AD. It...
    8 KB (799 words) - 17:44, 12 August 2024
  • Alhazen (Ibn al-Haytham) was an 11th-century Arab mathematician and astronomer. "Alhazen" may also refer to: Alhazen (crater), a lunar crater 59239 Alhazen...
    238 bytes (59 words) - 15:40, 13 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Alhazen (crater)
    Alhazen is a lunar impact crater that lies near the eastern limb of the Moon's near side. Just to the south-southeast is the crater Hansen, and to the...
    5 KB (355 words) - 04:24, 19 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for Lune of Hippocrates
    one above, the Arab mathematician Hasan Ibn al-Haytham (Latinized name Alhazen, c. 965 – c. 1040) showed that where two lunes are formed, on the two sides...
    7 KB (876 words) - 04:26, 17 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Diameter
    other-dimensional Tesseract Hypersphere Geometers by name Aida Aryabhata Ahmes Alhazen Apollonius Archimedes Atiyah Baudhayana Bolyai Brahmagupta Cartan Coxeter...
    8 KB (1,018 words) - 23:01, 6 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Book of Optics
    composed by the medieval Arab scholar Ibn al-Haytham, known in the West as Alhazen or Alhacen (965–c. 1040 AD). The Book of Optics presented experimentally...
    19 KB (2,176 words) - 13:53, 18 July 2024
  • The understanding of the principles of dioptrics was further expanded by Alhazen, considered the father of modern optics. Diopter/Dioptre (unit of measurement)...
    1 KB (159 words) - 01:35, 24 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Straightedge and compass construction
    ruler-and-compass construction for the general solution of the ancient Alhazen's problem (billiard problem or reflection from a spherical mirror). Some...
    36 KB (4,790 words) - 00:23, 22 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Circle
    other-dimensional Tesseract Hypersphere Geometers by name Aida Aryabhata Ahmes Alhazen Apollonius Archimedes Atiyah Baudhayana Bolyai Brahmagupta Cartan Coxeter...
    45 KB (6,111 words) - 12:08, 15 September 2024