List of Iranian mathematicians

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

A

• Abhari (?–1262/1265)
• Abu Nasr-e Mansur (c. 960–1036)
• AbÅ« 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 mathematician, 2018 Fields medalist

C

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

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

F

• Kamāl al-DÄ«n al-FārisÄ« (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-JawharÄ« (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-KharaqÄ«, 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-DÄ«n al-QazwÄ«nÄ« al-KātibÄ«, logician and philosopher
• AbÅ« Sahl al-QÅ«hÄ«, mathematician and astronomer
• Abu Ishaq al-Kubunani (d. after 1481), mathematician, astronomer

M

• Esfandiar Maasoumi, Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, Southern Methodist University
• Mahani (9th century), mathematician and astronomer
• Maryam Mirzakhani (1977–2017) Professor of Mathematics, Stanford University; first woman recipient of the Fields Medal (2014)
• 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

• YaÊ¿qÅ«b ibn Ṭāriq (?–796), mathematician and astronomer
• Nazif ibn Yumn (?–990), mathematician

Z

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

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