List of Iranian mathematicians

The following is a list of Iranian mathematicians including ethnic Iranian mathematicians.

A

B

  • Bahai, Sheikh (1547–1621), poet, mathematician, astronomer, engineer, designer, faghih (religious scientist), and architect
  • Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi (787–886), known in Latin as Albumasar
  • Abu Zayd al-Balkhi (850–934), geographer and mathematician
  • Al-Biruni (973–1048), astronomer and mathematician
  • Sahl ibn Bishr (c. 786–845?), astrologer, mathematician
  • al-Birjandi (?–1528), astronomer and mathematician
  • Caucher Birkar (1978- ), Kurdish-Iranian[1][2] mathematician, 2018 Fields medalist

C

  • Rama Cont, Professor of Mathematics at University of Oxford,[3] recipient of the Louis Bachelier Prize of the French Academy of Sciences (2010)[4]

D

  • Abu Hanifa Dinawari (815–896), astronomer, agriculturist, botanist, metallurgist, geographer, mathematician, and historian

E

  • Abbas Edalat, Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics, Imperial College London[5]

F

  • Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī (1267–1319)
  • Fazari, Ibrahim (?–777), mathematician and astronomer
  • Fazari, Mohammad (?–796), mathematician and astronomer

G

  • Kushyar Gilani (971–1029), mathematician, geographer, astronomer
  • Abu Said Gorgani (9th century), astronomer and mathematician

H

  • Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi, mathematician, astronomer, geographer
  • Ayn al-Quzat Hamadani, jurisconsult, mystic, philosopher, poet and mathematician

I

  • Isfahani Abol-fath (10th century)
  • Al-Isfizari (11th-12th century), mathematician and astronomer

J

  • Al-Abbās ibn Said al-Jawharī (800-860), geometer

K

  • Karaji (953–1029)
  • Jamshid-i Kashani (c. 1380–1429), astronomer and mathematician
  • Khayyam, Omar (1048–1131), poet, mathematician, and astronomer
  • Al-Kharaqī, astronomer and mathematician
  • Khujandi (c. 940–c. 1000), mathematician and astronomer
  • Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (a.k.a. Al-Khwarazmi, c. 780–c. 850), creator of algorithm and algebra, mathematician and astronomer
  • Najm al-Dīn al-Qazwīnī al-Kātibī, logician and philosopher
  • Abū Sahl al-Qūhī, mathematician and astronomer
  • Abu Ishaq al-Kubunani (d. after 1481), mathematician, astronomer

M

N

  • Nasir Khusraw (1004–1088), scientist, Ismaili scholar, mathematician, philosopher, traveler and poet
  • Nasavi (c. 1010–c. 1075)
  • Nizam al-Din Nishapuri, mathematician, astronomer, jurist, exegete, and poet
  • Nayrizi (865–1022), mathematician and astronomer

Q

  • Ali Qushji (1403 – 16 December 1474), mathematician, astronomer and physician

S

  • Samarqandi, Ashraf (c. 1250–c. 1310), mathematician, astronomer
  • Ibn Sahl, mathematician, physicist
  • Freydoon Shahidi, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, Purdue University
  • Sijzi (c. 945–c. 1020), mathematician, astronomer and astrologer
  • Zayn al-Din Omar Savaji, philosopher and logician
  • M. Vali Siadat, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Chicago

T

  • Ramin Takloo-Bighash (born 1974), number theorist, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Tusi, Nasireddin (1201–1274), Persian polymath, architect, philosopher, physician, scientist, and theologian
  • Tusi, Sharafeddin (?–1213/4)

Y

Z

  • Zarir Jurjani (9th century), mathematician and astronomer

References

  1. ^ "Mathematician has top medal stolen half an hour after winning it". euronews. 2018-08-02. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
  2. ^ "Médaille Fields: Un Iranien, un Italien, un Allemand et un Indo-Australien ont obtenu la prestigieuse récompense". www.20minutes.fr (in French). Retrieved 2018-08-05.
  3. ^ "Prof. Rama Cont". Retrieved 2018-09-20.
  4. ^ "Prix Louis Bachelier de la Fondation Natixis pour la recherche quantitative et de la SMAI - les grands Prix de l'Académie des sciences". Archived from the original on 2014-10-26. Retrieved 2014-08-13.
  5. ^ Abbas Edalat's Home Page Archived 2007-01-16 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ "Esfandiar Maasoumi, Ph.D." Archived from the original on 2006-08-16.
  7. ^ Jacobson, Howard (July 29, 2017). "The world has lost a great artist in mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 July 2017.