List of Iranian mathematicians

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

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Contents:

* Top
* 0–9
* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z

## A

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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

## E

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

## F

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

## G

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

## H

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

## I

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

## J

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

## K

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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

## S

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* 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

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* 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

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

## Z

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

## References

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1. ^ "Mathematician has top medal stolen half an hour after winning it". euronews. 2018-08-02. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
2. ^ "Médaille Fields: Un Iranien, un Italien, un Allemand et un Indo-Australien ont obtenu la prestigieuse récompense". www.20minutes.fr (in French). Retrieved 2018-08-05.
3. ^ "Prof. Rama Cont". Retrieved 2018-09-20.
4. ^ "Prix Louis Bachelier de la Fondation Natixis pour la recherche quantitative et de la SMAI - les grands Prix de l'Académie des sciences". Archived from the original on 2014-10-26. Retrieved 2014-08-13.
5. ^ Abbas Edalat's Home Page Archived 2007-01-16 at the Wayback Machine
6. ^ "Esfandiar Maasoumi, Ph.D." Archived from the original on 2006-08-16.
7. ^ Jacobson, Howard (July 29, 2017). "The world has lost a great artist in mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 July 2017.