ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Omar Khayyám
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Full name: Ghiyath al-Din Abu'l-Fath Umar ibn Ibrahim Al-Nishapuri al-Khayyami (Persian: غیاث الدین ابو الفتح عمر بن ابراهیم خیام نیشاپوری) .
Persian mathematician better known nowadays for his poetry.
Noted for being one of the first to discuss in print what is now known as Pascal's Triangle.
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Nationality
Persian
History
- Born: 18 May 1048, Nishapur, then a Seljuk capital in Khorasan, Persia (now Iran).
- Died: 4 Dec 1131, Nishapur
Theorems and Definitions
Books and Papers
- 1070: Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra (in which he discussed binomial coefficients and Pascal's Triangle.
- 1077: Sharh ma ashkala min musadarat kitab Uqlidis (Explanations of the Difficulties in the Postulates of Euclid) published in English as On the Difficulties of Euclid's Definitions.
- Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
