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ʿAbd al-Hamīd ibn Turk (Turkey/Iraq?; fl. 830) was a ninth century mathematician. He wrote a work on algebra of which only a chapter called "Logical Necessities in Mixed Equations", on the solution of quadratic equations, has survied.
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- Høyrup, J. (1986). "Al-Khwarizmi, Ibn Turk and the Liber Mensurationum: On the Origins of Islamic Algebra". Erdem 5: 445–484.
- Sayili, Aydin (1962). Abdülhamit İbn Türk'ün Katışık Denklemlerde Mantıki Zaruretler Adlı Yazısı ve Zamanın Cebri. (Logical necessities in mixed equations by ʿAbd al Hamīd ibn Turk and the algebra of his time.). Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevı. Rev. by Jean Itard in Revue Hist. Sci. Applic., 1965, I8:123-124.
