Omar Khayyam Facts
Omar Khayyam Facts
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| Omar Khayyam was born Ghiyāth ad-Dīn Abu'l-Fatḥ 'Umar ibn Ibrahim al-Khayyam Nishapuri in Persia where his family were tent makers. |
| He studied under the Arab scholar, Sheikh Muhammad Mansuri in present day Afghanistan. |
| He was a student of the great teacher, Imam Mowaffaq Nishapuri. |
| Khayyam became a famous teacher of algebra and geometry and the court astrologer. |
| During his lifetime he became famous as a mathematician and his work contributed significantly to the development of non-Euclidean geometry. |
| His Treatise on Demonstration of the Problems of Algebra derived methods for solving cubic equations and contained the triangular array of binomial coefficients known as Pascal's triangle. |
| It was this work that was largely responsible for transmitting Arab mathematics to Europe. |
| He wrote a book entitled Explanations of the difficulties in the postulates in Euclid's Elements, which is considered a first attempt at formulating a non-Euclidean postulate. |
| Khayyam's was finally improved on in 1680 by Giordano vitale. |
| Like most Persian mathematicians of the period, Khayyam was also an astronomer. |
| In 1079 Khayyam was asked to be part of the committee Seljuk Sultan Malik Shah I formed to reform the calendar. |
| His measurements were responsible for the development of the Jalali calendar. |
| This Persian calendar that contained eight leap years every thirty-three years. |
| It contained 365.2424 days per year and the modern Iranian calendar is based on these calculations. |
| He is best known in the west for the poem, the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. |
| It was translated into English poetry by Edward FitzGerald in the 1860's. |
| In 1970 a crater on the Moon was named for him. |
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