List of Iranian mathematicians explained

The following is a list of Iranian mathematicians including ethnic Iranian mathematicians.

A

• Abhari (?–1262/1265)
• Abu Nasr-e Mansur (c. 960–1036)
• Abū Ja'far al-Khāzin (900–971), mathematician and astronomer
• Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani (940–998), mathematician
• Abu al-Jud (possibly died 1014/15)
• Abu al-Hasan al-Ahwazi, 10th-11th century mathematician and astronomer

B

• Bahai, Sheikh (1547–1621), poet, mathematician, astronomer, engineer, designer, faghih (religious scientist), and architect
• Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi (787–886), known in Latin as Albumasar
• Abu Zayd al-Balkhi (850–934), geographer and mathematician
• Al-Biruni (973–1048), astronomer and mathematician
• Sahl ibn Bishr (c. 786–845?), astrologer, mathematician
• al-Birjandi (?–1528), astronomer and mathematician
• Caucher Birkar (1978-), Kurdish-Iranian^{[1] [2]} mathematician, 2018 Fields medalist

C

• Rama Cont, Professor of Mathematics at University of Oxford,^[3] recipient of the Louis Bachelier Prize of the French Academy of Sciences (2010)^[4]

D

• Abu Hanifa Dinawari (815–896), astronomer, agriculturist, botanist, metallurgist, geographer, mathematician, and historian

E

• Abbas Edalat, Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics, Imperial College London^[5]

F

• Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī (1267–1319)
• Fazari, Ibrahim (?–777), mathematician and astronomer
• Fazari, Mohammad (?–796), mathematician and astronomer

G

• Kushyar Gilani (971–1029), mathematician, geographer, astronomer
• Abu Said Gorgani (9th century), astronomer and mathematician

H

• Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi, mathematician, astronomer, geographer
• Ayn al-Quzat Hamadani, jurisconsult, mystic, philosopher, poet and mathematician

I

• Isfahani Abol-fath (10th century)
• Al-Isfizari (11th-12th century), mathematician and astronomer

J

• Al-Abbās ibn Said al-Jawharī (800-860), geometer

K

• Karaji (953–1029)
• Jamshid-i Kashani (c. 1380–1429), astronomer and mathematician
• Khayyam, Omar (1048–1131), poet, mathematician, and astronomer
• Al-Kharaqī, astronomer and mathematician
• Khujandi (c. 940–c. 1000), mathematician and astronomer
• Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (a.k.a. Al-Khwarazmi, c. 780–c. 850), creator of algorithm and algebra, mathematician and astronomer
• Najm al-Dīn al-Qazwīnī al-Kātibī, logician and philosopher
• Abū Sahl al-Qūhī, mathematician and astronomer
• Abu Ishaq al-Kubunani (d. after 1481), mathematician, astronomer

M

• Esfandiar Maasoumi, Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, Southern Methodist University^[6]
• Mahani (9th century), mathematician and astronomer
• Maryam Mirzakhani (1977–2017) Professor of Mathematics, Stanford University; first woman recipient of the Fields Medal (2014)^[7]
• Muhammad Baqir Yazdi (17th century), found the pair of amicable numbers 9,363,584 and 9,437,056

N

• Nasir Khusraw (1004–1088), scientist, Ismaili scholar, mathematician, philosopher, traveler and poet
• Nasavi (c. 1010–c. 1075)
• Nizam al-Din Nishapuri, mathematician, astronomer, jurist, exegete, and poet
• Nayrizi (865–1022), mathematician and astronomer

Q

• Ali Qushji (1403 – 16 December 1474), mathematician, astronomer and physician

S

• Samarqandi, Ashraf (c. 1250–c. 1310), mathematician, astronomer
• Ibn Sahl, mathematician, physicist
• Freydoon Shahidi, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, Purdue University
• Sijzi (c. 945–c. 1020), mathematician, astronomer and astrologer
• Zayn al-Din Omar Savaji, philosopher and logician
• M. Vali Siadat, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Chicago

T

• Ramin Takloo-Bighash (born 1974), number theorist, University of Illinois at Chicago
• Tusi, Nasireddin (1201–1274), Persian polymath, architect, philosopher, physician, scientist, and theologian
• Tusi, Sharafeddin (?–1213/4)

Y

• Yaʿqūb ibn Ṭāriq (?–796), mathematician and astronomer
• Nazif ibn Yumn (?–990), mathematician

Z

• Zarir Jurjani (9th century), mathematician and astronomer

Notes and References

1. News: Mathematician has top medal stolen half an hour after winning it. 2018-08-02. euronews. 2018-08-08. en.
2. Web site: Médaille Fields: Un Iranien, un Italien, un Allemand et un Indo-Australien ont obtenu la prestigieuse récompense. www.20minutes.fr. fr. 2018-08-05.
3. Web site: Prof. Rama Cont . 2018-09-20 .
4. Web site: Prix Louis Bachelier de la Fondation Natixis pour la recherche quantitative et de la SMAI - les grands Prix de l'Académie des sciences . 2014-08-13 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141026191221/http://www.academie-sciences.fr/activite/prix/gp_natixis.htm . 2014-10-26 .
5. http://theory.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ae/ Abbas Edalat's Home Page
6. Web site: Esfandiar Maasoumi, Ph.D.. https://web.archive.org/web/20060816071214/http://smu.edu/economics/faculty/full%20time/emaasoumi/emaasoumi.htm . 2006-08-16 .
7. News: Jacobson. Howard. The world has lost a great artist in mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani. 31 July 2017. The Guardian. July 29, 2017.