Omar Khayyam
1048 - 1131
HPI 86.69115 languages
Omar Khayyam is most famous for his poetry.
The Most Famous
Mathematicians from Iran
17 notable people
This page contains a list of the greatest Iranians Mathematicians. The pantheon dataset contains 1,010 Mathematicians, 17 of which were born in Iran. This makes Iran the birth place of the 13th most number of Mathematicians behind China and India.
Top 10 Iranian Mathematicians
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Iranian Mathematicians of all time. This list of famous Iranian Mathematicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of Iranian Mathematicians.
#1 #2 
Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani
940 - 998
HPI 72.2649 languagesAbu al-Wafa' Buzjani was a mathematician and astronomer who was most famous for his tables of trigonometric functions.
#3 
Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi
1236 - 1311
HPI 67.0428 languagesQutb al-din al-shirazi is most famous for his work in astronomy. He is credited with the discovery of the Shirazian calendar, which is a solar calendar.
#4 
Abu Nasr Mansur
960 - 1036
HPI 66.5023 languagesPersian mathematician and astronomer (c. 960 – 1036)
#5 
Abū Sahl al-Qūhī
940 - 1000
HPI 66.2623 languages10th century Persian mathematician, physicist and astronomer
#6 
Al-Khazini
1077 - 1155
HPI 65.8926 languagesastronomer, philosopher and mechanician (1100-1200)
#7 
Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī
1135 - 1213
HPI 65.2422 languagesPersian mathematician and astronomer
#8 
Al-Karaji
953 - 1029
HPI 64.9926 languagesAl-Karaji was a mathematician and astronomer from the 11th century who is most famous for his contributions to algebra, including the introduction of the concept of the unknown.
#9 
Maryam Mirzakhani
1977 - 2017
HPI 61.8285 languages21st-century Iranian mathematician
#10 
Al-Mahani
820 - 880
HPI 61.7118 languagesMuslim mathematician and astronomer
People by Birth Decade
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