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Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi

1236 - 1311

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Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi has received more than 144,621 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi is the 206th most popular mathematician (up from 225th in 2019), the 159th most popular biography from Iran (down from 157th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Iranian Mathematician.

Qutb al-din al-shirazi is most famous for his work in astronomy. He is credited with the discovery of the Shirazian calendar, which is a solar calendar.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi ranks 206 out of 1,004. Before him are Pedro Nunes, Theodorus of Cyrene, Richard von Mises, Paul Guldin, Tullio Levi-Civita, and Paolo Ruffini. After him are Michael Atiyah, Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, Victor D'Hondt, Constantin Carathéodory, Hermann Schwarz, and Étienne-Louis Malus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1236, Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi ranks 1. After him are Violant of Aragon, Chungnyeol of Goryeo, Wen Tianxiang, Leo II, King of Armenia, Jacopone da Todi, Albert I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Stephen the Posthumous, and Lu Xiufu. Among people deceased in 1311, Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi ranks 4. Before him are Arnaldus de Villa Nova, Külüg Khan, and James II of Majorca. After him are Margaret of Brabant, Siegfried von Feuchtwangen, Pietro Gradenigo, Walter V, Count of Brienne, Mangrai, and David VIII of Georgia.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi ranks 159 out of 631. Before him are Amytis of Media (-630), Al-Khazini (1077), Al-Karaji (953), Vologases IV (150), Ibn Babawayh (918), and Zakariya al-Qazwini (1203). After him are Shapour Bakhtiar (1914), Vologases VI (200), Sharafkhan Bidlisi (1543), Ashraf Pahlavi (1919), Abbas Mirza (1789), and Phraates V (-100).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Iran

Among mathematicians born in Iran, Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi ranks 6. Before him are Omar Khayyam (1048), Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani (940), Abu Nasr Mansur (960), Al-Khazini (1077), and Al-Karaji (953). After him are Abū Sahl al-Qūhī (940), Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (1135), Maryam Mirzakhani (1977), Athir al-Din al-Abhari (1200), Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī (1265), and Al-Mahani (820).

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