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Omar Khayyam

1048 - 1131

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Ghiyāth al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīshābūrī (18 May 1048 – 4 December 1131) (Persian: غیاث‌الدین ابوالفتح عمر بن ابراهیم خیام نیشابورﻯ), commonly known as Omar Khayyam (عمر خیّام), was a Persian poet and polymath, known for his contributions to mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, and Persian literature.: 94  He was born in Nishapur, Iran and lived during the Seljuk era, around the time of the First Crusade. As a mathematician, he is most notable for his work on the classification and solution of cubic equations, where he provided a geometric formulation based on the intersection of conics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Omar Khayyam is the 10th most popular mathematician (down from 8th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Iran (down from 1st in 2019) and the most popular Iranian Mathematician.

Omar Khayyam is most famous for his poetry.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Omar Khayyam ranks 10 out of 1,004. Before him are Blaise Pascal, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, Euclid, Fibonacci, Ada Lovelace, and Leonhard Euler. After him are John Forbes Nash Jr., Bernhard Riemann, Hypatia, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Al-Biruni, and Pierre de Fermat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1048, Omar Khayyam ranks 1. After him are Alexios I Komnenos, Emperor Shenzong of Song, Antipope Benedict X, Magnus II of Norway, Peter I, Count of Savoy, and Świętosława of Poland. Among people deceased in 1131, Omar Khayyam ranks 1. After him are Baldwin II of Jerusalem, Stephen II of Hungary, Joscelin I, Count of Edessa, Canute Lavard, Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, Mahmud II, Dobrodeia of Kiev, Sanai, Philip of France, William, Count of Luxembourg, and Peter of Bruys.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Omar Khayyam ranks 3 out of 631. Before him are Xerxes I (-519), and Cyrus the Great (-600). After him are Al-Ghazali (1058), Zoroaster (-2000), Ruhollah Khomeini (1902), Abu Nuwas (762), Jabir ibn Hayyan (721), Harun al-Rashid (766), Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919), Darius III (-380), and Ali Khamenei (1939).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Iran

Among mathematicians born in Iran, Omar Khayyam ranks 1. After him are Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani (940), Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi (1236), Abu Nasr Mansur (960), Abū Sahl al-Qūhī (940), Al-Khazini (1077), Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (1135), Al-Karaji (953), Maryam Mirzakhani (1977), Al-Mahani (820), Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī (1265), and Al-Nayrizi (865).

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