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Abu Nasr Mansur
Abu Nasr Mansur ibn Iraq was a Persian mathematician and astronomer, a prince of the Afrighid dynasty of Khwarazm. He worked at the court of the Ma'munid Khwarazmshahs at Gurganj, where he taught al-Biruni, and later followed him to the court of Mahmud of Ghazni. He made important contributions to spherical trigonometry, including the law of sines for spherical triangles.
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