- Banu
Musa , family of Arab mathematicians and astronomers of the
9th cent. A.D. The name means “sons of Musa” and refers
to the three brothers, Muhammad, Ahmad, and al-Hasan. They supervised
the translation of Greek scientific works into Arabic and helped to
found the Arabic school of mathematics. The most important work ascribed
to them is the geometrical treatise Book on the Measurement of
Plane and Spherical Figures.
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