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Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī

1135 - 1213

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Sharaf al-Dīn al-Muẓaffar ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Muẓaffar al-Ṭūsī (Persian: شرف‌الدین مظفر بن محمد بن مظفر توسی; c. 1135 Tus, Iran – c. 1213 Iran) known more often as Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī or Sharaf ad-Dīn aṭ-Ṭūsī, was an Iranian mathematician and astronomer of the Islamic Golden Age (during the Middle Ages). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī has received more than 73,310 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī is the 349th most popular mathematician, the 227th most popular biography from Iran (down from 215th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Iranian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī ranks 349 out of 1,004. Before him are Johann Radon, Zhu Shijie, Peter Barlow, Karl Menger, Jean Dieudonné, and Ignazio Danti. After him are Ernesto Cesàro, Rolf Nevanlinna, Antoine Gombaud, Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, Ostilio Ricci, and Jean-Marie Duhamel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1135, Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī ranks 7. Before him are Chrétien de Troyes, Joachim of Fiore, Léonin, Bernart de Ventadorn, Joscelin III, Count of Edessa, and Inge I of Norway. After him are Walter of Châtillon, Judith of Thuringia, Herman IV, Margrave of Baden, William of the White Hands, and William I, Count of Boulogne. Among people deceased in 1213, Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī ranks 8. Before him are Peter II of Aragon, Muhammad al-Nasir, John of Matha, Maria of Montpellier, Gertrude of Merania, and Gangjong of Goryeo. After him are William of Winchester, Lord of Lunenburg, Eleanor, Countess of Vermandois, Frederick II, Duke of Lorraine, and Guy of Thouars.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī ranks 227 out of 631. Before him are Hamdallah Mustawfi (1281), Daqiqi (1000), Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari (838), Ibn al-Faqih (null), Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar (1906), and Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdi (1500). After him are Amir Kabir (1807), Zahra Khanom Tadj es-Saltaneh (1883), Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli (854), Masawaiyh (777), Phraates I (-190), and Aga Khan I (1800).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Iran

Among mathematicians born in Iran, Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī ranks 8. Before him are Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani (940), Abu Nasr Mansur (960), Al-Khazini (1077), Al-Karaji (953), Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi (1236), and Abū Sahl al-Qūhī (940). After him are Maryam Mirzakhani (1977), Athir al-Din al-Abhari (1200), Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī (1265), Al-Mahani (820), Kushyar Gilani (971), and Al-Nayrizi (865).

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