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Omar Khayyam

1048 - 1131

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Ghiyāth al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīsābūrī (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. He lived during the rule 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 geometric solutions by the intersection of conics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Omar Khayyam has received more than 3,251,466 page views. His biography is available in 112 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 111 in 2019). Omar Khayyam is the 7th most popular mathematician (down from 6th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Iran 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 7 out of 823. Before him are Archimedes, Blaise Pascal, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, and Leonhard Euler. After him are Euclid, Hypatia, Bertrand Russell, Al-Biruni, Bernhard Riemann, 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, Magnus II of Norway, Antipope Benedict X, 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, Canute Lavard, Stephen II of Hungary, Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, Joscelin I, Count of Edessa, Mahmud II, Sanai, Philip of France, and William, Count of Luxembourg.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Omar Khayyam ranks 2 out of 528. Before him are Zoroaster (-2000). After him are Al-Ghazali (1058), Cyrus the Great (-600), Xerxes I (-519), Darius III (-380), Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919), Ruhollah Khomeini (1902), Harun al-Rashid (766), Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi (865), Ismail I (1487), and Jabir ibn Hayyan (721).

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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), Al-Karaji (953), Abu Nasr Mansur (960), Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi (1236), Al-Khazini (1077), Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (1135), Maryam Mirzakhani (1977), Al-Nayrizi (865), and Caucher Birkar (1978).

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