Was the first person to test hypotheses with verifiable experiments,

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•developing the scientific method more than 200 years before European scholars learned of it—by reading his books.

•Born in Basra in 965,

•First studied theology, he tried to resolve the differences between the Shi'ah

and Sunnah sects but unsuccessfully.

•He then turned his attention to the works of the ancient Greek.

•Philosophers and mathematicians, including Euclid and Archimedes.

•He completed the fragmentary Conics by Apollonius of Perga.

•He was the first person to apply algebra to geometry,

He found the branch of mathematics known as analytic geometry.