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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 154,503 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Abu Zayd al-Balkhi is the 231st most popular mathematician (up from 297th in 2019), the 49th most popular biography from Afghanistan (down from 44th in 2019) and the most popular Afghan Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Abu Zayd al-Balkhi ranks 231 out of 823. Before him are Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi, Thomas Abbt, L. E. J. Brouwer, Kazimierz Kuratowski, Anatoly Fomenko, and Henri Cartan. After him are Giovanni Ceva, Édouard Roche, Al-Khazini, Johannes de Sacrobosco, Émile Picard, and Robert Recorde.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 850, Abu Zayd al-Balkhi ranks 14. Before him are Pope Stephen VII, Pope Stephen VI, Pope Romanus, Pope Stephen V, Istakhri, and Linji Yixuan. After him are Emperor Seiwa, Vladimir of Bulgaria, Bruno, Duke of Saxony, Branimir of Croatia, Adelaide of Paris, and Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ ibn Aslam. 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 49 out of 145. Before him are Mas'ud I of Ghazni (998), Sher Ali Khan (1825), Abdul Rahim Hatif (1926), Bairam Khan (1501), Khwaja Abdullah Ansari (1006), and Diodotus I (-285). After him are Humaira Begum (1918), Abu Sa'id Gardezi (1100), Tahir ibn Husayn (776), Dost Mohammad Khan (1793), Haji Mohammad Chamkani (1947), and Ismail Khan (1946).

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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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