Al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar الحجّاج بن يوسف بن مطر
Full Name: Al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar. Arabic: الحجّاج بن يوسف بن مطر Born: 786AD. Died: 833 AD. Origin: Baghdad Famous for: Mathematician and Translator. Contributions: He was the first…
Contribution of eminent Muslims, who developed different fields of Mathematics through research.
Full Name: Al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar. Arabic: الحجّاج بن يوسف بن مطر Born: 786AD. Died: 833 AD. Origin: Baghdad Famous for: Mathematician and Translator. Contributions: He was the first…
Farisi was a pupil of the astronomer and mathematician Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi, who in turn was a pupil of Nasir al-Din Tusi. Full Name: Kamal al-Din Hasan ibn Ali ibn…
Full Name: Abū ʿUbayd ʿAbd al‐Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad al‐Jūzjānī. Arabic: أبو عبيد عبد الواحد بن محمد الجوزجاني Born: Died: 1070AD. Origin: Guzgan, Persia. Famous for: Astronomer and Mathematician. Contributions: He…
Jamshid al-Kashi is considered as one of the greatest persian mathmetician and astronomer of his times. Full Name: Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd Masʿūd al-Kāshī (or al-Kāshānī). Arabic: غیاث الدین جمشید کاشانی…
Al-Balkhi is believed to have been the first to diagnose that mental illness can have psychological and physiological causes. Full Name: Abu Zayd Ahmed ibn Sahl Balkhi . Arabic: ابو…
Full Name: Mīrzā Muhammad Tāraghay bin Shāhrukh . Arabic: میرزا محمد طارق بن شاہ رخ Other Names: Ulugh Beg Born: 1394 AD. Died: 1449 AD. Origin: Sultaniyeh, Timurid Empire (now…
Full Name: Ala al-Dīn Ali ibn Muhammed . Arabic: علاء الدين علي بن محمد Other Names: Ulugh Beg Born: 1403 AD. Died: 1474 AD. Origin: Samarkand, Timurid Empire (now Uzbekistan).…
Al-Kindi was also one of the fathers of cryptography, introduced several new methods of breaking ciphers, notably frequency analysis. Full Name: Abū Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ al-Kindī . Other…
Full Name: Abu al-Ḥasan Alāʾ al‐Dīn bin Alī bin Ibrāhīm bin Muhammad bin al-Matam al-Ansari. Other Names: Ibn al-Shatir or Ibn ash-Shatir. Arabic: ابن الشاطر Born: 1304AD. Died: 1375 AD.…
Al-Samarqandī is known as mathematicians for his famous tract Kitāb Ashkāl al-ta’sīs (“Book on the Fundamental Theorems”). Full Name: Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ashraf al-Ḥusaynī al-Samarqandī. Arabic: شمس الدین سمرقندی…