Search engine Google is celebrating the 971st birth anniversary of popular mathematician, poet, philosopher, and astronomer Omar Khayyam.
Khayyam was born on May 18, 1048 in Nishapur, north-east Iran and died on December 4, 1131 at age 83.
He is popular for several mathematical and scientific discoveries. He was the first to provide a solution for cubic equations. Also, he provided geometric solutions for the same by the conics intersection .
Omar Khayyam
One of his most important contributions to algebra was the 'Treatise on Demonstration of Algebra Problems'. He also founded a triangular array of binomial coefficients and the Pascal's triangle. Khayyam penned a book on music and algebra named arithmetic problems.
Khayyam gave important results on ratios extending Euclid's work to include the ratios multiplication.
Noteworthy, he worked on compiling astronomical tables and contributed to calendar reform in 1079, in addition the measured year length as 365.24219858156 days.
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