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MATHEMATICIAN

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 135,412 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi is the 225th most popular mathematician (down from 179th in 2019), the 157th most popular biography from Iran (down from 131st in 2019) and the 5th 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 225 out of 823Before him are John Charles Fields, Gilles de Roberval, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, Seymour Papert, and Lloyd Shapley. After him are Thomas Abbt, L. E. J. Brouwer, Kazimierz Kuratowski, Anatoly Fomenko, Henri Cartan, and Abu Zayd al-Balkhi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1236, Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi ranks 3Before him are Violant of Aragon and Chungnyeol of Goryeo. After him are Wen Tianxiang, Leo II, King of Armenia, Jacopone da Todi, Stephen the Posthumous, and Albert I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Among people deceased in 1311, Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi ranks 4Before him are Arnaldus de Villa Nova, Külüg Khan, and James II of Majorca. After him are Margaret of Brabant, Walter V, Count of Brienne, and David VIII of Georgia.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi ranks 157 out of 528Before him are Musa al-Sadr (1928), Jaʻfar ibn Yahya (767), Sharafkhan Bidlisi (1543), Orodes II (null), Ashraf Pahlavi (1919), and Ali Daei (1969). After him are Hussein-Ali Montazeri (1922), Sadegh Hedayat (1903), Sufyan al-Thawri (716), Vologases IV (150), Tiridates I of Armenia (null), and Arsames (-550).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Iran

Among mathematicians born in Iran, Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi ranks 5Before him are Omar Khayyam (1048), Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani (940), Al-Karaji (953), and Abu Nasr Mansur (960). After him are Al-Khazini (1077), Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (1135), Maryam Mirzakhani (1977), Al-Nayrizi (865), and Caucher Birkar (1978).