Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi
A number of books are attributed to Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi written about astronomy, mathematics, medicine, physics, music theory, philosophy and Sufism. Full Name: Qotb al-Din Mahmoud b. Zia al-Din Mas'ud…
Contribution of eminent Muslims, who developed different fields of Mathematics through research.
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi نصیر الدین الطوسی
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi is often considered the creator of trigonometry as a mathematical discipline in its own right.. Full Name: Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Tusi. Other Names: Nasir al-Din…
Sharaf al-Din al-Tusi شرف‌الدین التوسی
Al-Tusi has been credited with proposing the idea of a function in Mathematics. Full Name: Sharaf al-Dīn al-Muẓaffar ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Muẓaffar al-Ṭūsī. Other Names: Sharaf al-Din al-Tusi Arabic: شرف‌الدین…
Al-Khazini الخازنی
Al-Khazini developed astronomical tables, considered to be one of the major works in mathematical astronomy of the medieval period. Full Name: Abū al-Fath Abd al-Rahman Mansūr al-Khāzini. Arabic: أبوالفتح عبدالرحمن…
Omar Khayyam عمر خیّام
Umar Khayyam was a Persian polymath, scientist, philosopher, and poet of the 11th century CE. Full Name: Ghiyāth al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīsābūrī Arabic: عمر خیّام Born: 1048…
Ahmad ibn Musa أحمد بن موسى
Full Name: Abū al‐Qāsim, Aḥmad ibn Mūsā ibn Shākir. Arabic: أبو جعفر أحمد بن موسى بن شاكر Other Names: Banū Mūsá, Ahmad ibn Mūsá, Abū al‐Qāsim Origin: Baghdad, Iraq. Born/Death:…
Al-Hasan ibn Musa أحمد بن موسى
Full Name: Al-Ḥasan ibn Mūsā ibn Shākir. Arabic: أبو جعفر أحمد بن موسى بن شاكر Other Names: Banū Mūsá, Ahmad ibn Mūsá, Abū al‐Qāsim Origin: Baghdad, Iraq. Born: 810 AD.…
Muhammad ibn Musa محمد بن موسى
Full Name: Abū Jaʿfar, Muḥammad ibn Mūsā ibn Shākir. Arabic: أبو جعفر محمّد بن موسى بن شاكر Other Names: Jaʿfar Muḥammad, Muḥammad ibn al-Ṣabbāḥ, Banū Mūsá, Muḥammad ibn Mūsá Origin:…
Maryam Mirzakhani مریم میرزاخانی
The only Muslim Woman to Win the ‘Nobel Prize’ of Mathematics. Full Name: Maryam Mirzakhani. Persian: مریم میرزاخانی Born: 1977. Died: c. 2017. Origin: Tehran, Iran. Famous for: Mathematician. Contributions: Simple…
Ibn al-Haytham أبو علي، الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم
Full Name: Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham Arabic: أبو علي، الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم Other Names: Alhazen, al-Baṣrī Born: c. 965 Died: c. 1040 Origin: Basra, Iraq. Famous for:…