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Al-Mahani

820 - 880

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Abu-Abdullah Muhammad ibn Īsa Māhānī (Persian: ابوعبدالله محمد بن عیسی ماهانی, flourished c. 860 and died c. 880) was a Persian mathematician and astronomer born in Mahan, (in today Kermān, Iran) and active in Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate. His known mathematical works included his commentaries on Euclid's Elements, Archimedes' On the Sphere and Cylinder and Menelaus' Sphaerica, as well as two independent treatises. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Al-Mahani is the 431st most popular mathematician (up from 475th in 2019), the 246th most popular biography from Iran (up from 279th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Iranian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Al-Mahani ranks 431 out of 1,004. Before him are Maryam Mirzakhani, Elwin Bruno Christoffel, Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, Yuri Manin, Gerhard Gentzen, and William Thurston. After him are Diocles, Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī, Heisuke Hironaka, Giovanni Antonio Magini, Johannes Werner, and Jacques Ozanam.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 820, Al-Mahani ranks 9. Before him are Rastislav of Moravia, Ibn Khordadbeh, Ashot I of Armenia, Vímara Peres, Rhodri the Great, and Presian I of Bulgaria. After him are Gisela, daughter of Louis the Pious, Ranulf I of Aquitaine, Anandavardhana, and Adalbert I, Margrave of Tuscany. Among people deceased in 880, Al-Mahani ranks 4. Before him are Fatima al-Fihri, Carloman of Bavaria, and Bruno, Duke of Saxony. After him is Ariwara no Narihira.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Al-Mahani ranks 246 out of 631. Before him are Shams Pahlavi (1917), Al-Sarakhsi (1009), Ibn Khuzayma (838), Maryam Mirzakhani (1977), Orodes I of Parthia (-190), and Marjane Satrapi (1969). After him are Mohammad Beheshti (1928), Daqiqi (1000), Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī (1265), Lotf Ali Khan (1769), Morteza Motahhari (1919), and Hayedeh (1942).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Iran

Among mathematicians born in Iran, Al-Mahani ranks 10. Before him are Abu Nasr Mansur (960), Abū Sahl al-Qūhī (940), Al-Khazini (1077), Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (1135), Al-Karaji (953), and Maryam Mirzakhani (1977). After him are Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī (1265), Al-Nayrizi (865), Athir al-Din al-Abhari (1200), Al-Birjandi (null), Kushyar Gilani (971), and Abu Said Gorgani (850).

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