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Al-Biruni

973 - 1048

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Abu Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni (Persian: ابوریحان بیرونی; Arabic: أبو الريحان البيروني; 973 – after 1050), known as al-Biruni, was a Khwarazmian Iranian scholar and polymath during the Islamic Golden Age. He has been called variously "Father of Comparative Religion", "Father of modern geodesy", Founder of Indology and the first anthropologist. Al-Biruni was well versed in physics, mathematics, astronomy, and natural sciences, and also distinguished himself as a historian, chronologist, and linguist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Al-Biruni has received more than 2,673,753 page views. His biography is available in 93 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 88 in 2019). Al-Biruni is the 9th most popular mathematician (up from 11th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Uzbekistan (up from 4th in 2019) and the most popular Uzbekistani Mathematician.

Al-Biruni is most famous for his contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and geography. He was the first person to calculate the earth's circumference and the radius of the earth.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Al-Biruni ranks 9 out of 1,004. Before him are Carl Friedrich Gauss, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, Euclid, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Leonhard Euler, and Omar Khayyam. After him are Hypatia, Bernhard Riemann, Bertrand Russell, Fibonacci, Pierre de Fermat, and Niels Henrik Abel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 973, Al-Biruni ranks 1. After him are Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor, Murasaki Shikibu, and Al-Maʿarri. Among people deceased in 1048, Al-Biruni ranks 1. After him are Pope Damasus II, Pope Gregory VI, Emperor Jingzong of Western Xia, Gyda of Sweden, Adalbert, Duke of Lorraine, and Wipo of Burgundy.

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In Uzbekistan

Among people born in Uzbekistan, Al-Biruni ranks 3 out of 190. Before him are Avicenna (980), and Timur (1336). After him are Muhammad al-Bukhari (810), Babur (1483), Al-Tirmidhi (824), Islam Karimov (1938), Abu Mansur al-Maturidi (893), Baha-ud-Din Naqshband Bukhari (1327), Shavkat Mirziyoyev (1957), Shah Rukh (1377), and Isma'il ibn Ahmad (849).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Uzbekistan

Among mathematicians born in Uzbekistan, Al-Biruni ranks 1. 

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