Jafar Zafarani worked in mathematics at a period when the field's own foundations were under discussion.
The record lists Jafar Zafarani as Iranian mathematician.
Jafar Zafarani was born at Isfahan in 1947. His recorded nationality is Iran. He studied at University of Liège and University of Tehran.
Twentieth-century mathematics became abstract and highly specialised, and its methods reached into physics, economics and computing.
A theorem is permanent in a way no experiment can be, which raises the standard for entry.
That the work was done from Iran matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
