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Abū Sahl al-Qūhī

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Abū Sahl Wayjan ibn Rustam al-Kūhī (al-Qūhī; Persian: ابوسهل بیژن کوهی Abusahl Bijan-e Koohi) was a Persian mathematician, physicist and astronomer. He was from Kuh (or Quh), an area in Tabaristan, Amol, and flourished in Baghdad in the 10th century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abū Sahl al-Qūhī has received more than 62,679 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Abū Sahl al-Qūhī is the 274th most popular mathematician (up from 317th in 2019), the 199th most popular biography from Iran and the 7th most popular Iranian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Abū Sahl al-Qūhī ranks 274 out of 1,004. Before her are Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov, Carl David Tolmé Runge, Atle Selberg, Karen Uhlenbeck, Charles-Eugène Delaunay, and Shing-Tung Yau. After her are Paul Cohen, Lev Pontryagin, Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ ibn Aslam, Jacques Charles François Sturm, George Atwood, and Edward Waring.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 940, Abū Sahl al-Qūhī ranks 11. Before her are Géza, Grand Prince of the Hungarians, Eadwig, Leopold I, Margrave of Austria, Doubravka of Bohemia, Baldwin III, Count of Flanders, and Abu-Mahmud Khojandi. After her are Henry III, Duke of Bavaria, Ibn Sahl, Bardas Phokas the Younger, Willigis, and Ælfthryth, wife of Edgar. Among people deceased in 1000, Abū Sahl al-Qūhī ranks 7. Before her are Olaf Tryggvason, Bjarni Herjólfsson, Al-Maqdisi, Harthacnut I of Denmark, Zoe Karbonopsina, and Abu-Mahmud Khojandi. After her are Constantine of Preslav, Henry of Speyer, Bertha of Swabia, Ibn Sahl, Abu Sulayman Sijistani, and Joseph Genesius.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Abū Sahl al-Qūhī ranks 199 out of 631. Before her are Ibn Khuzayma (838), Shihab al-Din 'Umar al-Suhrawardi (1145), Táhirih (1817), Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran (1960), Phriapatius (-290), and Ali Daei (1969). After her are Ahmad ibn Rustah (null), Orodes III of Parthia (-100), Al-Sarakhsi (1009), Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi (1627), Gotarzes II of Parthia (10), and Mansour Bahrami (1956).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Iran

Among mathematicians born in Iran, Abū Sahl al-Qūhī ranks 7. Before her are Omar Khayyam (1048), Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani (940), Abu Nasr Mansur (960), Al-Khazini (1077), Al-Karaji (953), and Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi (1236). After her are Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (1135), Maryam Mirzakhani (1977), Athir al-Din al-Abhari (1200), Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī (1265), Al-Mahani (820), and Kushyar Gilani (971).

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