List of Iranian mathematicians
Appearance
The following is a list of Iranian mathematicians including ethnic Iranian mathematicians.
A
[edit]- Abhari (?–1262/1265)
- Abu Nasr-e Mansur (c. 960–1036)
- Abū Ja'far al-Khāzin (900–971), mathematician and astronomer
- Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani (940–998), mathematician
- Abu al-Jud (possibly died 1014/15)
- Abu al-Hasan al-Ahwazi, 10th-11th century mathematician and astronomer
B
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Abu Hanifa Dinawari (815–896), astronomer, agriculturist, botanist, metallurgist, geographer, mathematician, and historian
E
[edit]- Abbas Edalat, Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics, Imperial College London[5]
F
[edit]- Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī (1267–1319)
- Fazari, Ibrahim (?–777), mathematician and astronomer
- Fazari, Mohammad (?–796), mathematician and astronomer
G
[edit]- Kushyar Gilani (971–1029), mathematician, geographer, astronomer
- Abu Said Gorgani (9th century), astronomer and mathematician
H
[edit]- Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi, mathematician, astronomer, geographer
- Ayn al-Quzat Hamadani, jurisconsult, mystic, philosopher, poet and mathematician
I
[edit]- Isfahani Abol-fath (10th century)
- Al-Isfizari (11th-12th century), mathematician and astronomer
J
[edit]- Al-Abbās ibn Said al-Jawharī (800-860), geometer
K
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Esfandiar Maasoumi, Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, Southern Methodist University[6]
- Mahani (9th century), mathematician and astronomer
- Maryam Mirzakhani (1977–2017) Professor of Mathematics, Stanford University; first woman recipient of the Fields Medal (2014)[7]
- Muhammad Baqir Yazdi (17th century), found the pair of amicable numbers 9,363,584 and 9,437,056
N
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Ali Qushji (1403 – 16 December 1474), mathematician, astronomer and physician
S
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Yaʿqūb ibn Ṭāriq (?–796), mathematician and astronomer
- Nazif ibn Yumn (?–990), mathematician
Z
[edit]- Zarir Jurjani (9th century), mathematician and astronomer
References
[edit]- ^ "Mathematician has top medal stolen half an hour after winning it". euronews. 2018-08-02. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Prof. Rama Cont". Retrieved 2018-09-20.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Abbas Edalat's Home Page Archived 2007-01-16 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Esfandiar Maasoumi, Ph.D." Archived from the original on 2006-08-16.
- ^ Jacobson, Howard (July 29, 2017). "The world has lost a great artist in mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 July 2017.