MATHEMATICIAN
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
780 - 850
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (Persian: محمد بن موسى خوارزمی; c. 780 – c. 850), or simply al-Khwarizmi, was a Khwarazm-born polymath who produced vastly influential Arabic-language works in mathematics, astronomy, and geography. Around 820 CE, he was appointed as the astronomer and head of the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, the contemporary capital city of the Abbasid Caliphate. His popularizing treatise on algebra, compiled between 813–33 as Al-Jabr (The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing),: 171 presented the first systematic solution of linear and quadratic equations. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi has received more than 2,721,343 page views. His biography is available in 140 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 136 in 2019). Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi is the 4th most popular mathematician (up from 5th in 2019), the most popular biography from Turkmenistan (up from 3rd in 2019) and the most popular Turkmen Mathematician.
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi is most famous for his work in mathematics. He is considered the father of algebra.
Memorability Metrics
2.7M
Page Views (PV)
86.03
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
140
Languages Editions (L)
12.84
Effective Languages (L*)
4.24
Coefficient of Variation (CV)
Among MATHEMATICIANS
Among mathematicians, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi ranks 4 out of 1,004. Before him are Archimedes, Blaise Pascal, and Carl Friedrich Gauss. After him are Euclid, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Leonhard Euler, Omar Khayyam, Al-Biruni, Hypatia, Bernhard Riemann, and Bertrand Russell.
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Contemporaries
Among people born in 780, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi ranks 1. After him are Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Pope Eugene II, Pope Valentine, Rabanus Maurus, Frederick of Utrecht, Odo I, Count of Orléans, and Theodote. Among people deceased in 850, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi ranks 1. After him are Ramiro I of Asturias, Emperor Ninmyō, and Wulfstan of Hedeby.
Others Born in 780
Go to all RankingsMuhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
MATHEMATICIAN
780 - 850
HPI: 86.03
Rank: 1
Ahmad ibn Hanbal
WRITER
780 - 855
HPI: 75.93
Rank: 2
Pope Eugene II
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
780 - 827
HPI: 71.35
Rank: 3
Pope Valentine
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
780 - 827
HPI: 68.64
Rank: 4
Rabanus Maurus
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
780 - 856
HPI: 66.26
Rank: 5
Frederick of Utrecht
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
780 - 838
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 6
Odo I, Count of Orléans
POLITICIAN
780 - 834
HPI: 53.31
Rank: 7
Theodote
POLITICIAN
780 - 801
HPI: 52.76
Rank: 8
Others Deceased in 850
Go to all RankingsMuhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
MATHEMATICIAN
780 - 850
HPI: 86.03
Rank: 1
Ramiro I of Asturias
POLITICIAN
790 - 850
HPI: 60.45
Rank: 2
Emperor Ninmyō
POLITICIAN
808 - 850
HPI: 58.44
Rank: 3
Wulfstan of Hedeby
EXPLORER
800 - 850
HPI: 54.24
Rank: 4
In Turkmenistan
Among people born in Turkmenistan, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi ranks 1 out of 50. After him are Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu (1199), Abu Muslim (718), Saparmurat Niyazov (1940), Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow (1957), Al-Nasa'i (829), Al-Zamakhshari (1075), Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur (1603), Ibn Khordadbeh (820), Chaghri Beg (989), Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak (736), and Al-Muqanna (800).
Others born in Turkmenistan
Go to all RankingsMuhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
MATHEMATICIAN
780 - 850
HPI: 86.03
Rank: 1
Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu
POLITICIAN
1199 - 1231
HPI: 72.63
Rank: 2
Abu Muslim
MILITARY PERSONNEL
718 - 755
HPI: 71.02
Rank: 3
Saparmurat Niyazov
POLITICIAN
1940 - 2006
HPI: 68.62
Rank: 4
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow
POLITICIAN
1957 - Present
HPI: 66.75
Rank: 5
Al-Nasa'i
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
829 - 915
HPI: 66.38
Rank: 6
Al-Zamakhshari
WRITER
1075 - 1144
HPI: 65.94
Rank: 7
Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur
WRITER
1603 - 1664
HPI: 64.31
Rank: 8
Ibn Khordadbeh
GEOGRAPHER
820 - 912
HPI: 63.96
Rank: 9
Chaghri Beg
POLITICIAN
989 - 1060
HPI: 63.78
Rank: 10
Abd Allah ibn al-Mubarak
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
736 - 797
HPI: 63.01
Rank: 11
Al-Muqanna
POLITICIAN
800 - 783
HPI: 62.38
Rank: 12
Among MATHEMATICIANS In Turkmenistan
Among mathematicians born in Turkmenistan, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi ranks 1. After him are Alī ibn Ahmad al-Nasawī (1010).
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
780 - 850
HPI: 86.03
Rank: 1
Alī ibn Ahmad al-Nasawī
1010 - 1075
HPI: 50.15
Rank: 2