section_path: History/Origins/Arithmetic in the Islamic golden age
section_name: Arithmetic in the Islamic golden age
paragraph_text: Arithmetic in the Islamic golden age
  
  In the early ninth century, the caliph Al-Ma'mun ordered translations of many Greek mathematical works and at least one Sanskrit work (the Sindhind, which may or may not be Brahmagupta's Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta).Diophantus's main work, the Arithmetica, was translated into Arabic by Qusta ibn Luqa (820–912).Part of the treatise al-Fakhri (by al-Karajī, 953 – ca. 1029) builds on it to some extent. According to Rashed Roshdi, Al-Karajī's contemporary Ibn al-Haytham knew what would later be called Wilson's theorem.