Abu Reikhan Muhammad ibn Ahmed al- Beruni, a great scientist, poet and philosopher, was able to master almost all the sciences of his time. His interests extended to such sciences as astronomy and geography, mathematics and physics, chemistry and botany, geodesy and pharmacology, geology and mineralogy, history and ethnography, philosophy and philology. In addition, al-Beruni knew more than six languages, including Persian, Khorezmian, Jewish, Arabic, Greek, Syriac, and Sanskrit. He was fluent in Arabic and Persian writing. Such person as al-Beruni, Friedrich Nietzsche called the overman.