Anania Shirakatsi

Anania Shirakatsi was the first Armenian mathematician and is called the father of science in Armenia. He lived from about 610 to about 685.¹

He was born in Shirak, a district of Ayrarat, the central province of historic Armenia. His teacher was Tychicus of Trebizond, in First Armenia, and Anania spent eight years there learning the foundations of arithmetic.¹

His Book of Arithmetic has three parts: tables of operations, twenty-four problems with their solutions, and entertaining puzzles. His Ashkharhatsuyts, or Geography, gives detailed information on Greater Armenia, Persia and the Caucasus. It contains no maps.¹ He also wrote on chronology and astronomy.¹