Ibn Al-Haytham

Ibn Al-Haytham

male, deceased (1039)
finite speed, lenses, speed of light, electromagnetic, empiricism, electromagnetism…Islamic Science, Islamic medicine, Early Islamic philosophy, Islamicmathematics, Islamic astronomy
"' (Arabic: أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن بن الهيثم, Latinized: Alhacen or (deprecated) Alhazen) (965 – 1039), was an Iraqi Muslim polymath who made sig...
Al-Kindi

Al-Kindi

male, deceased (873)
musician, Astronomer, Peripatetic school, Sunni Muslim scholar of Islam, Islamicmathematics, abbasid…Islamic astronomy, Islamic music, mathematics, Islamic medicine, Islamic Science
"' (c. 801-873 CE), also known by the Latinized version of his name Alkindus"' to the West, was a Muslim Arab scientist, philosopher,...
Al-Karaji

Al-Karaji

male, deceased (1029)
binomial coefficients, Islamicmathematics, cubes, Pascal's triangle, mathematical induction, historian…mathematics
Al-Karaji was an engineer and mathematician of the highest calibre. His enduring contributions to the field of mathematics and engineering are...
Ulugh Beg

Ulugh Beg

male, deceased (1449)
Turko-Persian Tradition, Islamicmathematics, Turco-Persian, Islamic astronomy, Timurid Empire, mirza
Ulugh Beg (c1393 or 1394 in Sultaniyeh (Persia) - October 27, 1449) was a Timurid ruler as well as an astronomer, mathematician and sultan. His...
Abu Nasr Mansur

Abu Nasr Mansur

male, deceased (1036)
al-Biruni, Islamicmathematics, Islamic astronomy, Muslim mathematician, Ghazna, gilan
Abu Nasr Mansur ibn Ali ibn Iraq (c. 960 - 1036) was a Muslim mathematician. He is well known for discovering the sine law. Abu Nasr Mansur was...
Ibn Yunus

Ibn Yunus

male, deceased (1009)
Islamicmathematics, craters of the Moon named after them, moon, philosopher, mathematician, Egyptian
Ibn Yunus (Arabic: ابن يونس (c. 950-1009) was an important Egyptian mathematician and astronomer whose works are noted for being ahead of their t...
Hunayn Ibn Ishaq

Hunayn Ibn Ishaq

male, deceased (873)
Johannitius, Abū Zayd Hunayn ibn Ishāq al-‘Ibādī, Islamicmathematics, Abbasids, Abu Zayd Hunayn Ibn Ishaq al Ibadi, Ishaq ibn Hunayn
Hunayn ibn Ishaq or more formally Abū Zayd Hunayn ibn Ishāq al-‘Ibādī ,known in Latin as Johannitius (809-873) was a famous and influential Arab N...
Ibn Al-Banna

Ibn Al-Banna

male, 759 years old
Islamicmathematics, AZD, arab, african, Algebraist, Geometer
Ibn al-Banna al-Murrakushi al-Azdi ["c."1256–"c."1321] was an Arab mathematician and astronomer.
Avicenna

Avicenna

male, deceased (1037)
physics, mathematics, Classical humanist, Islamic medicine, Soldier, Islamic Science…Islamic astronomy, Logic in Islamic philosophy, Early Islamic philosophy, Islamic poetry, Islamicmathematics
Ibn Sina, also known as Avicenna) was a Persian ("Tājīk") Muslim universal genius who made signficant contributions to medicine, astronomy, al...

Omar Khayyám

male, deceased (1123)
rubaiyaa, Omar al-Khayyami, Arabic mathematics, Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra, Islamicmathematics, heliocentric…Islamic philosophy, Islamic astronomy
Ghiyās al-Dīn Abu al-Fath Omār ibn Ibrāhīm Khayyām Nishābūrī or Omar Khayyam (b. May 18, 1048 Nishapur, (Persia) - d. December 4, 1131), was a Per...