MATHEMATICIAN

Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani

940 - 998

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Abū al-Wafāʾ Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ismāʿīl ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Būzjānī or Abū al-Wafā Būzhjānī (Persian: ابو الوفا بوژگانی, Arabic: ابو الوفا بوزجانی; 10 June 940 – 15 July 998) was a Persian mathematician and astronomer who worked in Baghdad. He made important innovations in spherical trigonometry, and his work on arithmetic for businessmen contains the first instance of using negative numbers in a medieval Islamic text. He is also credited with compiling the tables of sines and tangents at 15' intervals. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani has received more than 103,085 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani is the 61st most popular mathematician (down from 56th in 2019), the 57th most popular biography from Iran (down from 51st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Iranian Mathematician.

Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani was a mathematician and astronomer who was most famous for his tables of trigonometric functions.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani ranks 61 out of 1,004. Before him are Norbert Wiener, Claude Shannon, Gaspard Monge, Al-Battani, Émilie du Châtelet, and August Ferdinand Möbius. After him are Hermann Minkowski, Bhāskara II, Urbain Le Verrier, Simon Stevin, Friedrich Bessel, and Abraham de Moivre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 940, Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani ranks 3. Before him are Hugh Capet, and Ferdowsi. After him are Mieszko I of Poland, Géza, Grand Prince of the Hungarians, Eadwig, Leopold I, Margrave of Austria, Doubravka of Bohemia, Baldwin III, Count of Flanders, Abu-Mahmud Khojandi, Abū Sahl al-Qūhī, and Henry III, Duke of Bavaria. Among people deceased in 998, Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani ranks 1. After him are Sigfried, Count of the Ardennes, Koppány, and Sisinnius II of Constantinople.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani ranks 57 out of 631. Before him are Doris Lessing (1919), Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary (1932), Yazdegerd III (624), Shirin Ebadi (1947), Ghazan (1271), and Astyages (-700). After him are Báb (1819), Attar of Nishapur (1145), Moshe Katsav (1945), Cyaxares (-700), Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (1934), and Masoud Barzani (1946).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Iran

Among mathematicians born in Iran, Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani ranks 2. Before him are Omar Khayyam (1048). After him are Abu Nasr Mansur (960), Al-Khazini (1077), Al-Karaji (953), Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi (1236), Abū Sahl al-Qūhī (940), Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (1135), Maryam Mirzakhani (1977), Athir al-Din al-Abhari (1200), Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī (1265), and Al-Mahani (820).

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