Contribution of eminent Muslims, who developed different fields of Mathematics through research.
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 b. Mosleh Shirazi. Arabic: قطب‌الدینْ محمود بن ضیاءالدینْ مسعود بن مصلح شیرازی Born: 1236 AD. Died: 1311 AD. Origin: Kazerun, Iran. Famous for: Astronomer and…
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 al-Tusi Arabic: نصیر الدین الطوسی Born: 1201 AD. Died: 1274 AD. Origin: Tus, Khurasan, Khwarazmid Empire. Famous for: Architect, Philosopher, Physician, and Scientist. Legacy: The…
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 مظفر بن محمد بن مظفر توسی Born: 1135 AD. Died: 1213 AD. Origin: Tus, Iran. Famous for: Mathematicians. Legacy: The main-belt asteroid 7058 Al-Ṭūsī, discovered…
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 منصور الخازنی Born: 11th Century. Died: 12th Century. Origin: Seljuk Empire, Iran. Famous for: Astronomer. Contributions: His astronomical tables are considered to be one of…
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 AD. Origin: Nishapur, Khorasan, Persia. Died: 1131 AD. Famous for: Mathematics, Astronomy, Persian philosophy, and Persian poetry. Contributions: the classification and solution of cubic equations.…
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: 9th Century Famous for: Mathematician and Astronomer. Contribution: Kitab al-Hiyal al-Naficah (“The Book of Ingenious Devices”). Kitāb Maʿrifah masāḥat al-ashkāl al-basīṭah wa-al-kuriyyah (“Book on the…
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. Death: 873 AD. Famous for: Mathematician and Astronomer. Contribution: Kitab al-Hiyal al-Naficah (“The Book of Ingenious Devices”). Kitāb Maʿrifah masāḥat al-ashkāl al-basīṭah wa-al-kuriyyah (“Book on…
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: Baghdad, Iraq. Born:: 750 AD. Death: 872 AD. Famous for: Mathematician and Astronomer. Contribution: Kitab al-Hiyal al-Naficah (“The Book of Ingenious Devices”). Kitāb Maʿrifah masāḥat…
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 geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces and the volume of the moduli space of curves. Awards The first Iranian woman to win a gold medal at the…
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: Mathematician, Astronomer, and Physicist Contributions: Referred to as “the father of modern optics” Ibn al-Haytham was the first to correctly explain the theory of vision.…
