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Al-Biruni

973 - 1048

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Abu Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni (Persian: ابوریحان بیرونی; Arabic: أبو الريحان البيروني; 973 – after 1050), known as al-Biruni, was a Khwarazmian Iranian scholar and polymath during the Islamic Golden Age. He has been called variously "Father of Comparative Religion", "Father of modern geodesy", Founder of Indology and the first anthropologist. Al-Biruni was well versed in physics, mathematics, astronomy, and natural sciences, and also distinguished himself as a historian, chronologist, and linguist. He studied almost all the sciences of his day and was rewarded abundantly for his tireless research in many fields of knowledge. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Al-Biruni is the 15th most popular mathematician (down from 9th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Uzbekistan (down from 3rd in 2019) and the most popular Uzbekistani Mathematician.

Al-Biruni is most famous for his contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and geography. He was the first person to calculate the earth's circumference and the radius of the earth.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Al-Biruni ranks 15 out of 1,004. Before him are Leonhard Euler, Omar Khayyam, John Forbes Nash Jr., Bernhard Riemann, Hypatia, and Joseph-Louis Lagrange. After him are Pierre de Fermat, Bertrand Russell, Jacob Bernoulli, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Henri Poincaré, and Pierre-Simon Laplace.

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Among people born in 973, Al-Biruni ranks 1. After him are Murasaki Shikibu, Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor, and Al-Maʿarri. Among people deceased in 1048, Al-Biruni ranks 1. After him are Pope Damasus II, Pope Gregory VI, Emperor Jingzong of Western Xia, Wipo of Burgundy, Gyda of Sweden, and Adalbert, Duke of Lorraine.

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In Uzbekistan

Among people born in Uzbekistan, Al-Biruni ranks 4 out of 190. Before him are Avicenna (980), Timur (1336), and Muhammad al-Bukhari (810). After him are Babur (1483), Islam Karimov (1938), Al-Tirmidhi (824), Shah Rukh (1377), Abu Mansur al-Maturidi (893), Baha-ud-Din Naqshband Bukhari (1327), Shavkat Mirziyoyev (1957), and Isma'il ibn Ahmad (849).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Uzbekistan

Among mathematicians born in Uzbekistan, Al-Biruni ranks 1. 

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