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Omar Khayyam

1048 - 1131

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Ghiyasoldin Abolfath Omar ebn Ebrahim Khayyam Neyshaburi (18 May 1048 – 4 December 1131), commonly known as Omar Khayyam (Persian: عمر خیّام), was a Persian polymath, known for his contributions to mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, and poetry.: 94  He was born in Nishapur, the initial capital of the Seljuk Empire, and lived during the period of the Seljuk dynasty, 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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Omar Khayyam has received more than 3,431,955 page views. His biography is available in 112 different languages on Wikipedia. Omar Khayyam is the 8th most popular mathematician (down from 7th in 2019), the most popular biography from Iran (up from 2nd 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 8 out of 1,004. Before him are Blaise Pascal, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, Euclid, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, and Leonhard Euler. After him are Al-Biruni, Hypatia, Bernhard Riemann, Bertrand Russell, Fibonacci, 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, Joscelin I, Count of Edessa, Stephen II of Hungary, Canute Lavard, Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, Mahmud II, William, Count of Luxembourg, Sanai, Philip of France, Peter of Bruys, and Dobrodeia of Kiev.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Omar Khayyam ranks 1 out of 631. After him are Al-Ghazali (1058), Zoroaster (-2000), Ruhollah Khomeini (1902), Cyrus the Great (-600), Xerxes I (-519), Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919), Ali Khamenei (1939), Darius III (-380), Harun al-Rashid (766), Ismail I (1487), and Abu Nuwas (762).

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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), Abu Nasr Mansur (960), Al-Khazini (1077), Al-Karaji (953), Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi (1236), Abū Sahl al-Qūhī (940), Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (1135), Maryam Mirzakhani (1977), Athir al-Din al-Abhari (1200), Kamāl al-Dīn al-Fārisī (1265), and Al-Mahani (820).

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