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The Most Famous

MATHEMATICIANS from Turkmenistan

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This page contains a list of the greatest Turkmen Mathematicians. The pantheon dataset contains 823 Mathematicians, 1 of which were born in Turkmenistan. This makes Turkmenistan the birth place of the 54th most number of Mathematicians behind Iceland and Georgia.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Turkmen Mathematicians of all time. This list of famous Turkmen Mathematicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Alī ibn Ahmad al-Nasawī (1010 - 1075)

With an HPI of 46.96, Alī ibn Ahmad al-Nasawī is the most famous Turkmen Mathematician.  His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.

Alī ibn Aḥmad al-Nasawī (c. 1011 possibly in Khurasan – c. 1075 in Baghdad) was a Persian mathematician from Khurasan, Iran. He flourished under the Buwayhid sultan Majd al-dowleh, who died in 1029-30AD, and under his successor. He wrote a book on arithmetic in Persian, and then Arabic, entitled the "Satisfying (or Convincing) on Hindu Calculation" (al-muqni fi-l-hisab al Hindi). He also wrote on Archimedes's Book of Lemmas and Menelaus's theorem (Kitab al-ishba, or "satiation"), where he made corrections to the Book of Lemmas as translated into Arabic by Thabit ibn Qurra and last revised by Nasir al-Din al-Tusi. Al-Nasawī's arithmetic explains the division of fractions and the extraction of square and cubic roots (square root of 57,342; cubic root of 3, 652, 296) almost in the modern manner. Al-Nasawī replaces sexagesimal by decimal fractions. Al-Nasawī criticises earlier authors, but in many cases incorrectly. His work was not original, and he sometimes writes of matters that he does not understand, e.g. "borrowing" in subtraction. Ragep and Kennedy also give an analysis of a mid-12th-century manuscript in which a summary of Euclid's Elements exists by al-Nasawī.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as mathematicians born between 1010 and 1010. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased mathematicians include Alī ibn Ahmad al-Nasawī. As of April 2022, 1 new mathematicians have been added to Pantheon including Alī ibn Ahmad al-Nasawī.

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