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MATHEMATICIAN

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 60,397 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Abū Sahl al-Qūhī is the 317th most popular mathematician (up from 370th in 2019).

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  • 54.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Abū Sahl al-Qūhī ranks 317 out of 823Before her are Lev Pontryagin, Oronce Finé, Edmund Landau, Shing-Tung Yau, Kiyosi Itô, and Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant. After her are Frank P. Ramsey, Gaston Julia, Ernesto Cesàro, Theodor Kaluza, Philipp Ludwig von Seidel, and Jacques Charles François Sturm.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 940, Abū Sahl al-Qūhī ranks 12Before her are Géza, Grand Prince of the Hungarians, Leopold I, Margrave of Austria, Doubravka of Bohemia, Henry III, Duke of Bavaria, Baldwin III, Count of Flanders, and Abu-Mahmud Khojandi. After her are Bardas Phokas the Younger, Ibn Sahl, Willigis, and Ælfthryth, wife of Edgar. Among people deceased in 1000, Abū Sahl al-Qūhī ranks 9Before her are Harthacnut I of Denmark, Al-Maqdisi, Zoe Karbonopsina, García Sánchez II of Pamplona, Henry of Speyer, and Abu-Mahmud Khojandi. After her are Bertha of Swabia, Joseph Genesius, Matsyendranatha, Ibn Sahl, Abu Sulayman Sijistani, and Þorbjörn Hornklofi.

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