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Ibn al-Shatir

1304 - 1375

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ʿAbu al-Ḥasan Alāʾ al‐Dīn bin Alī bin Ibrāhīm bin Muhammad bin al-Matam al-Ansari known as Ibn al-Shatir or Ibn ash-Shatir (Arabic: ابن الشاطر; 1304–1375) was an Arab astronomer, mathematician and engineer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ibn al-Shatir has received more than 162,621 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Ibn al-Shatir is the 245th most popular mathematician (down from 243rd in 2019), the 73rd most popular biography from Syria (down from 64th in 2019) and the most popular Syrian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Ibn al-Shatir ranks 245 out of 1,004. Before him are Johannes de Sacrobosco, Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Seki Takakazu, Robert Recorde, John Charles Fields, and Joseph Bertrand. After him are Simon Newcomb, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Fazārī, Émile Picard, Edmund Landau, Jabir ibn Aflah, and Jacopo Riccati.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1304, Ibn al-Shatir ranks 6. Before him are Petrarch, Ibn Battuta, Jayaatu Khan Tugh Temür, Louis I, Count of Flanders, and Magnus I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. After him is Günther von Schwarzburg. Among people deceased in 1375, Ibn al-Shatir ranks 6. Before him are Giovanni Boccaccio, Valdemar IV of Denmark, Philip, Duke of Orléans, Stephen II, Duke of Bavaria, and Liu Bowen. After him are Eleanor of Sicily, Shuttarna II, John Henry, Margrave of Moravia, James IV of Majorca, Charles III, Count of Alençon, and Margaret Drummond, Queen of Scotland.

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In Syria

Among people born in Syria, Ibn al-Shatir ranks 73 out of 210. Before him are Zimri-Lim (-1800), As-Salih Ismail al-Malik (1163), Nureddin al-Atassi (1929), Salah al-Din al-Bitar (1912), Ibn Asakir (1105), and Fakhr al-Mulk Radwan (1080). After him are Usama ibn Munqidh (1095), Shukri al-Quwatli (1891), Anisa Makhlouf (1930), Mariam al-Asturlabi (950), Al-Qa'im (893), and Jurji Zaydan (1861).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Syria

Among mathematicians born in Syria, Ibn al-Shatir ranks 1. After him are Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi (920).

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