About Qāḍī Zāda al-Rūmī
Lived 1364 – 1437 (aged 72–73). Qāḍī Zāda al-Rūmī was a Turkish mathematician and astronomer.
(1364 in Bursa, Ottoman Empire – 1436 in Samarqand, Timurid Empire), whose actual name was Salah al-Din Musa Pasha ( means "son of the judge", al-rūmī "the Roman" indicating he came from Asia Minor, which was once Roman), was a Turkish astronomer and mathematician who worked at the observatory in Samarkand. He computed sin 1° to an accuracy of 10−12.
Together with Ulugh Beg, al-Kāshī and a few other astronomers, Qāḍī Zāda produced the Zij-i-Sultani, the first comprehensive stellar catalogue since the Maragheh observatory's Zij-i Ilkhani two centuries earlier. The Zij-i Sultani contained the positions of 992 stars.
His works Sharh al-Mulakhkhas (Commentary on Jaghmini's compendium on the science of Astronomy) Sharh Ashkal al-Ta'sis (Commentary on Samarkandi's Arithmetics)
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Islamic mathematician-astronomer
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Qāḍī Zāda al-Rūmī was born in 1364 in Bursa.
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Qāḍī Zāda al-Rūmī died in 1437 in Samarkand.
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Qāḍī Zāda al-Rūmī was a mathematician and astronomer.
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Qāḍī Zāda al-Rūmī was Turkish.
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