The Most Famous
MATHEMATICIANS from Afghanistan
This page contains a list of the greatest Afghan Mathematicians. The pantheon dataset contains 823 Mathematicians, 2 of which were born in Afghanistan. This makes Afghanistan the birth place of the 38th most number of Mathematicians behind Uzbekistan and Lithuania.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Afghan Mathematicians of all time. This list of famous Afghan Mathematicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Abu Zayd al-Balkhi (850 - 934)
With an HPI of 58.05, Abu Zayd al-Balkhi is the most famous Afghan Mathematician. His biography has been translated into 24 different languages on wikipedia.
Abu Zayd Ahmed ibn Sahl Balkhi (Persian: ابو زید احمد بن سهل بلخی) was a Persian Muslim polymath: a geographer, mathematician, physician, psychologist and scientist. Born in 850 CE in Shamistiyan, in the province of Balkh, Greater Khorasan, he was a disciple of al-Kindi. He also founded the "Balkhī school" of terrestrial mapping in Baghdad. Al-Balkhi is believed to have been the first to diagnose that mental illness can have psychological and physiological causes and he was the first to typify four types of emotional disorders: fear and anxiety; anger and aggression; sadness and depression; and obsessions.
2. Al-Sijzi (945 - 1020)
With an HPI of 52.28, Al-Sijzi is the 2nd most famous Afghan Mathematician. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Abu Sa'id Ahmed ibn Mohammed ibn Abd al-Jalil al-Sijzi (c. 945 - c. 1020, also known as al-Sinjari and al-Sijazi; Persian: ابوسعید سجزی; Al-Sijzi is short for "Al-Sijistani") was an Iranian Muslim astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer. He is notable for his correspondence with al-Biruni and for proposing that the Earth rotates around its axis in the 10th century. He dedicated work to 'Adud al-Daula, who was probably his patron, and to the prince of Balkh. He also worked in Shiraz making astronomical observations from 969 to 970.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as mathematicians born between 850 and 945. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased mathematicians include Abu Zayd al-Balkhi and Al-Sijzi.
