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Al-Isfahani
Abu al-Fath
Mahmud ibn Muhammad
ibn
Qasim
ibn
Fadl
al-Isfahani
was a
10th-century
Persian
mathematician
. He
flourished
probably
around
982 AD
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 and
Thabit ibn Qurra
.