
Omar Khayyam
1048 - 1131
Omar Khayyam is most famous for his poetry.
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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.
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.

1048 - 1131
Omar Khayyam is most famous for his poetry.

940 - 998
Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani was a mathematician and astronomer who was most famous for his tables of trigonometric functions.

1236 - 1311
Qutb 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.

960 - 1036
Persian mathematician and astronomer (c. 960 – 1036)

940 - 1000
10th century Persian mathematician, physicist and astronomer

1077 - 1155
astronomer, philosopher and mechanician (1100-1200)

1135 - 1213
Persian mathematician and astronomer

953 - 1029
Al-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.

1977 - 2017
21st-century Iranian mathematician

820 - 880
Muslim mathematician and astronomer
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