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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 the "founder of Indology", "Father of Comparative Religion", "Father of modern geodesy", 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 2,507,124 page views. His biography is available in 88 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 86 in 2019). Al-Biruni is the 11th most popular mathematician (up from 14th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Uzbekistan (down from 3rd in 2019) and the 2nd 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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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 88

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.78

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Al-Biruni ranks 11 out of 823. Before him are Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, Leonhard Euler, Omar Khayyam, Euclid, Hypatia, and Bertrand Russell. After him are Bernhard Riemann, Pierre de Fermat, Fibonacci, John Forbes Nash Jr., Pierre-Simon Laplace, and John von Neumann.

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Contemporaries

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

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In Uzbekistan

Among people born in Uzbekistan, Al-Biruni ranks 4 out of 145. Before him are Avicenna (980), Timur (1336), and Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (780). After him are Muhammad al-Bukhari (810), Babur (1483), Al-Tirmidhi (824), Islam Karimov (1938), Abu Mansur al-Maturidi (893), Shah Rukh (1377), Baha-ud-Din Naqshband Bukhari (1327), and Shavkat Mirziyoyev (1957).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Uzbekistan

Among mathematicians born in Uzbekistan, Al-Biruni ranks 2. Before him are Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (780).

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