The Most Famous
MATHEMATICIANS from Iraq
This page contains a list of the greatest Iraqi Mathematicians. The pantheon dataset contains 1,004 Mathematicians, 4 of which were born in Iraq. This makes Iraq the birth place of the 30th most number of Mathematicians behind Belarus, and Finland.
Top 6
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Iraqi Mathematicians of all time. This list of famous Iraqi Mathematicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Ahmad ibn Yusuf (835 - 912)
With an HPI of 59.05, Ahmad ibn Yusuf is the most famous Iraqi Mathematician. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.
Abu Ja'far Ahmad ibn Yusuf ibn Ibrahim ibn Tammam al-Siddiq Al-Baghdadi (Arabic: أبو جعفر أحمد بن يوسف بن ابراهيم بن تمام الصديق البغدادي; 835–912), known in the West by his Latinized name Hametus, was a Muslim Arab mathematician, like his father Yusuf ibn Ibrahim (Arabic: يوسف بن ابراهيم الصدَيق البغدادي).
2. Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī (746 - 806)
With an HPI of 58.23, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī is the 2nd most famous Iraqi Mathematician. His biography has been translated into 24 different languages.
Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Habib ibn Sulayman ibn Samra ibn Jundab al-Fazari (Arabic: محمد بن إبراهيم بن حبيب بن سليمان بن سمرة بن جندب الفزاري) (died 796 or 806) was an Arab philosopher, mathematician and astronomer.
3. Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi (980 - 1037)
With an HPI of 55.66, Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi is the 3rd most famous Iraqi Mathematician. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages.
Abū Manṣūr ʿAbd al-Qāhir ibn Ṭāhir bin Muḥammad bin ʿAbd Allāh al-Tamīmī al-Shāfiʿī al-Baghdādī (Arabic: أبو منصور عبدالقاهر ابن طاهر بن محمد بن عبدالله التميمي الشافعي البغدادي), more commonly known as Abd al-Qāhir al-Baghdādī (عبد القاهر البغدادي) or simply Abū Manṣūr al-Baghdādī (أَبُو مَنْصُورالبغدادي) was an Arab Sunni scholar from Baghdad. He was considered a leading Ash'arite theologian and Shafi'i jurist. He was an accomplished legal theoretician, man of letters, poet, prosodist, grammarian, heresiologist and mathematician.
4. Al-Samawal al-Maghribi (1130 - 1180)
With an HPI of 53.89, Al-Samawal al-Maghribi is the 4th most famous Iraqi Mathematician. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Al-Samawʾal ibn Yaḥyā al-Maghribī (Arabic: السموأل بن يحيى المغربي, c. 1130 – c. 1180), commonly known as Samawʾal al-Maghribi, was a mathematician, astronomer and physician. Born to a Jewish family of North African origin, he concealed his conversion to Islam for many years for fear of offending his father, then openly embraced Islam in 1163 after he had a dream telling him to do so. His father was a rabbi from Morocco named Yehuda ibn Abūn.
5. Yaʿqūb ibn Ṭāriq (b. 800)
With an HPI of 52.95, Yaʿqūb ibn Ṭāriq is the 5th most famous Iraqi Mathematician. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Yaʿqūb ibn Ṭāriq (Arabic: يعقوب بن طارق; referred to by some sources as Yaʿqūb; died c. 796) was an 8th-century Persian astronomer and mathematician who lived in Baghdad.
6. Ibrahim ibn Sinan (908 - 946)
With an HPI of 51.29, Ibrahim ibn Sinan is the 6th most famous Iraqi Mathematician. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Ibrahim ibn Sinan (Arabic: Ibrāhīm ibn Sinān ibn Thābit ibn Qurra, ابراهيم بن سنان بن ثابت بن قرة; born 295 – 296 AH/c. 908 in Baghdad, died: 334-335 AH/946 in Baghdad, aged 38) was a mathematician and astronomer who belonged to a family of scholars originally from Harran in northern Mesopotamia. He was the son of Sinan ibn Thabit (c. 880 – 943) and the grandson of Thābit ibn Qurra (c. 830 – 901). Like his grandfather, he belonged to a religious sect of star worshippers known as the Sabians of Harran. Ibrahim ibn Sinan studied geometry, in particular tangents to circles. He made advances in the quadrature of the parabola and the theory of integration, generalizing the work of Archimedes, which was unavailable at the time. Ibrahim ibn Sinan is often considered to be one of the most important mathematicians of his time.
People
Pantheon has 6 people classified as Iraqi mathematicians born between 746 and 1130. Of these 6, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Iraqi mathematicians include Ahmad ibn Yusuf, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī, and Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi. As of April 2024, 3 new Iraqi mathematicians have been added to Pantheon including Al-Samawal al-Maghribi, Yaʿqūb ibn Ṭāriq, and Ibrahim ibn Sinan.
Deceased Iraqi Mathematicians
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Ahmad ibn Yusuf
835 - 912
HPI: 59.05
Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī
746 - 806
HPI: 58.23
Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi
980 - 1037
HPI: 55.66
Al-Samawal al-Maghribi
1130 - 1180
HPI: 53.89
Yaʿqūb ibn Ṭāriq
800 - Present
HPI: 52.95
Ibrahim ibn Sinan
908 - 946
HPI: 51.29
Newly Added Iraqi Mathematicians (2024)
Go to all RankingsAl-Samawal al-Maghribi
1130 - 1180
HPI: 53.89
Yaʿqūb ibn Ṭāriq
800 - Present
HPI: 52.95
Ibrahim ibn Sinan
908 - 946
HPI: 51.29
