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| Sep 16 at 7:18 | comment | added | Jeppe Stig Nielsen | @NickGill Your source appears to have moved to URL mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obituaries/Al-Haytham_Telegraph/. Wikipedia has an article Alhazen's problem. | |
| Oct 25, 2017 at 11:19 | comment | added | Nick Gill | Peter Neumann's solution of Alhazen's problem might even outdo this for longevity: www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Obits2/Al-Haytham_Telegraph.html . He found a solution in 1997 to a problem that was posed by Ptolemy around AD150. | |
| May 11, 2014 at 13:41 | history | answered | Geoff Robinson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |