When1: 1272
Who: Nasir-Eddin or Nasireddin or Nasir Tusi [Tusi, Nasir] or Abu Jafar Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Ibn al-Hasan Nasir al-Din al-Tusi [al-Tusi, Abu Jafar Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Ibn al-Hasan Nasir al-Din] or Nasir al-Din al-Tusi [al-Tusi, Nasir al-Din]
What: mathematician
Where: Alamut, Persia
works\ Ilkhanic Tables [1272]
Detail: He lived 1201 to 1274 and used tangent and secant. He invented devices to resolve linear motion into sum of two circular motions {Tusi-couple, Nasir-Eddin}.
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