MATHEMATICIAN

Ibn Sahl

940 - 1000

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Ibn Sahl (full name: Abū Saʿd al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Sahl أبو سعد العلاء ابن سهل; c. 940–1000) was a Persian mathematician and physicist of the Islamic Golden Age, associated with the Buyid court of Baghdad. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ibn Sahl has received more than 67,008 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Ibn Sahl is the 390th most popular mathematician (up from 396th in 2019).

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  • 67k

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  • 54.68

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Ibn Sahl ranks 390 out of 1,004. Before him are Elwin Bruno Christoffel, Richard Courant, Grigory Margulis, Maryam Mirzakhani, Lennart Carleson, and Eugenio Beltrami. After him are John G. Kemeny, Stephen Cole Kleene, Raymond Smullyan, Qin Jiushao, Campanus of Novara, and Lars Hörmander.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 940, Ibn Sahl ranks 13. Before him are 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. After him are Bardas Phokas the Younger, Willigis, and Ælfthryth, wife of Edgar. Among people deceased in 1000, Ibn Sahl ranks 11. Before him are Zoe Karbonopsina, Abu-Mahmud Khojandi, Abū Sahl al-Qūhī, Constantine of Preslav, Henry of Speyer, and Bertha of Swabia. After him are Abu Sulayman Sijistani, Joseph Genesius, García Sánchez II of Pamplona, Matsyendranatha, Leo of Tripoli, and Mara Takla Haymanot.

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