He lived in Baghdad during the first golden age of Islamic science and, like Euclid, wrote mathematical books that collected and arranged the discoveries of earlier mathematicians.

• 他生活于巴格达，当时是伊斯兰科学的第一个黄金时代，他像欧几里德（Euclid）那样，收集整理了更早期数学家的发现而编写成数学书籍。