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Ziauddin Ahmed

Ziauddin Ahmed
ضیاء الدین احمد
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Sir Ziauddin at Aligarh Muslim University
Born Ziauddin Ahmed Zuberi
(1878-02-13)13 February 1878
Meerut, State of Uttar Pradesh, British Indian Empire
Died 23 December 1947(1947-12-23) (aged 69)
London, Great Britain
Residence Aligarh, Aligarh district, Uttar Pradesh.
Citizenship British India (1878–1947)
Nationality Indian
Fields Mathematics
Parliamentarian
Social reformer
Institutions London Mathematical Society
Royal Astronomical Society
Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College
Aligarh Muslim University
Trinity College, Cambridge
University of Paris
University of Bologna
Alma mater Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College
Allahabad University
Calcutta University
Cambridge University
University of Göttingen
University of Bologna
Al-Azhar University
Royal Astronomical Society
Patna University
Doctoral advisor Dr. James Reynold
Known for As a politician, was a member of British Indian Parliament, Muslim Renaissance, Aligarh Movement, Sadler Commission or Calcutta University Commission on higher education, Reserve Bank of India Act. Had leading and central role in the Pakistan Movement.
As a mathematician, did research work on Differential geometry, Projective geometry, Logarithmic applications and sciences, and Algebraic geometry and analytic geometry.
Notable awards Strachey Gold Medal (1895)
Sir Isaac Newton Scholarship
Lang Medal
CIE
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Notes
First general secretary of the Muslim League, and the close companion of Founder of Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Moti Lal Nehru, B.R. Ambedkar.

Sir Ziauddin Ahmad CIE, MP (Urdu: ضیاء الدین احمد‎, born Ziauddin Ahmed Zuberi (Urdu: ضیاء الدین احمد زبیری‎) on 13 February 1878 – died on 23 December 1947) was a Genius mathematician,parliamentarian, logician, natural philosopher, politician, political theorist, educationist and scholar. He was a member of the Aligarh Movement and was a professor,Principal of MAO College, first Pro Vice Chancellor, Vice Chancellor and Rector of Aligarh Muslim University, India. He remained Vice Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University for three terms.

In 1917 he was appointed a member of the Calcutta University Commission also known as the Sadler Commission. He was also a member of Skeen Committee also known as Indian Sandhurst Committee and Shea Commission for the Indianisation of the British Indian Army.


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