Omar Khayyam

1048 - 1122

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Omar Khayyam was an Islamic scholar who was a poet as well as a mathematician. He compiled astronomical tables and contributed to calendar reform and discovered a geometrical method of solving cubic equations by intersecting a parabola with a circle.
Full MacTutor biography [Version for printing]
List of References (27 books/articles)

Some Quotations (8)

Mathematicians born in the same country

Additional Material in MacTutor

  1. A picture of a mausoleum to Omar Khayyam
  2. Muslim extraction of roots

Honours awarded to Omar Khayyam
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Lunar featuresCrater Omar Khayyam

Other Web sites
  1. Encyclopaedia Britannica
  2. Khayyam information
  3. NNDB
  4. Muslim scientists
  1. MIT (The Rubaiyat)
  2. Kevin Brown (On the cubic)
  3. Georgia (Geometric solution of the cubic)
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