The Most Famous
MATHEMATICIANS from Syria
This page contains a list of the greatest Syrian Mathematicians. The pantheon dataset contains 823 Mathematicians, 1 of which were born in Syria. This makes Syria the birth place of the 46th most number of Mathematicians behind Libya and Portugal.
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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Syrian Mathematicians of all time. This list of famous Syrian Mathematicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Ibn al-Shatir (1304 - 1375)
With an HPI of 57.47, Ibn al-Shatir is the most famous Syrian Mathematician. His biography has been translated into 23 different languages on wikipedia.
ʿAbu al-Ḥasan Alāʾ al‐Dīn bin Alī bin Ibrāhīm bin Muhammad bin al-Matam al-Ansari known as Ibn al-Shatir or Ibn ash-Shatir (Arabic: ابن الشاطر; 1304–1375) was an Arab astronomer, mathematician and engineer. He worked as muwaqqit (موقت, timekeeper) in the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus and constructed a sundial for its minaret in 1371/72.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as mathematicians born between 1304 and 1304. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased mathematicians include Ibn al-Shatir.
