Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Nasir al-Din al-Tusi

Persian astronomer

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-0001

Place of Birth: Tus, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: scientist, astronomer, marja', writer, physician, architect, astrologer, mathematician, polymath, theologian, philosopher

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Tusi (Persian: ???? ?? ???? ?? ??? ?????? 18 February 1201 – 26 June 1274), better known as Nasir al-Din Tusi (Persian: ???? ????? ?????; or simply Tusi in the West), was a Persian polymath, architect, philosopher, physician, scientist, and theologian. He is often considered the creator of trigonometry as a mathematical discipline in its own right. He was a Twelver Muslim.
The Muslim scholar Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406) considered Tusi to be the greatest of the later Persian scholars.