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Abu Zayd al-Balkhi

850 - 934

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Abu Zayd Ahmed ibn Sahl Balkhi (Persian: ابو زید احمد بن سهل بلخی) was a Persian Muslim polymath: a geographer, mathematician, physician, psychologist and scientist. Born in 850 CE in Shamistiyan, in the province of Balkh, Greater Khorasan, he was a disciple of al-Kindi. He also founded the "Balkhī school" of terrestrial mapping in Baghdad. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abu Zayd al-Balkhi has received more than 168,093 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Abu Zayd al-Balkhi is the 195th most popular mathematician (up from 231st in 2019), the 36th most popular biography from Afghanistan (up from 49th in 2019) and the most popular Afghan Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Abu Zayd al-Balkhi ranks 195 out of 1,004. Before him are Jean Gaston Darboux, Hermann Grassmann, Abu Nasr Mansur, Jakob Steiner, Gabriel Lamé, and Theaetetus. After him are Al-Khazini, Giovanni Ceva, Al-Karaji, Laurent Schwartz, Pedro Nunes, and Theodorus of Cyrene.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 850, Abu Zayd al-Balkhi ranks 13. Before him are Ingólfr Arnarson, Pope Stephen VI, Pope Romanus, Pope Stephen V, Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye, and Istakhri. After him are Emperor Seiwa, Linji Yixuan, Vladimir of Bulgaria, Bruno, Duke of Saxony, Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ ibn Aslam, and Almış. Among people deceased in 934, Abu Zayd al-Balkhi ranks 2. Before him is Abdullah al-Mahdi Billah. After him are Emma of France, and Ebalus, Duke of Aquitaine.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Abu Zayd al-Balkhi ranks 36 out of 177. Before him are Mohammad Najibullah (1947), Hasan Akhund (1945), Abdur Rahman Khan (1844), Habibullāh Kalakāni (1890), Bairam Khan (1501), and Heracles of Macedon (-327). After him are Sibghatullah Mojaddedi (1925), Khwaja Abdullah Ansari (1006), Abdul Rashid Dostum (1954), Menander I (-190), Ibn al-Rawandi (827), and Abu Sa'id Mirza (1424).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Afghanistan

Among mathematicians born in Afghanistan, Abu Zayd al-Balkhi ranks 1. After him are Al-Sijzi (945).

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