alhazen's problem

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Definition von alhazen's problem im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

A mathematical problem in which lines drawn from two points in the plane of a circle must meet at a point on the circumference, making equal angles with the normal at that point

Silbentrennung

alhazen's prob·lem

Etymologie

() Named for a tenth-century Arab mathematician Ibn al-Haytham, whose latinized name, Alhacen, may be deprecated to Alhazen. Because his scripts were burnt for being in contradiction to the Qur'an, only parts of his works are preserved.