Banu Musa

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The Banu Musa (Farsi for "Children of Musa", sometimes transliterated Bana Musa) brothers were three Arab scholars, of Baghdad, active in the House of Wisdom:

Muhammad bin Musa (800-873), who specialised in geometry and astronomy
Ahmad bin Musa (805-873), who specialised in mechanics
Hasan bin Musa (810–873), who specialized in geometry

They were the sons of sons of Musa bin Shakir, who had been a highwayman and later an astrologer to the Caliph al-Mamun. At his death, he left his young sons, in the custody of the Caliph, who entrusted them to Ishaq bin Ibrahim al-Mus'abi, a former governor of Baghdad. The education of the three brothers was carried out by Yahya bin Abu Mansur who worked at the famous Bayt al-Hikmah library and translation centre in Baghdad.

External links

John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson. [] at the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.

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