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Quiz -- Identify the Legendary Poet who was also one of the greatest Mathematician ever ?
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21 Oct '12 02:24 pm
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Omar Khayyam lived between 1044 and 1123 CE and his full name was Ghiyath al-Din Abul Fateh Omar Ibn Ibrahim Khayyam. Omar Khayyam was an outstanding mathematician and astronomer. He was also well known as a poet, philosopher, and physician
Answered by LIPSIKA, 21 Oct '12 02:37 pm
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He is best known for his poetry, and outside Iran, for the quatrains (rubaiyaas) in Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, popularized through Edward Fitzgerald's re-created translation. His substantial mathematical contributions include his Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra, which gives a geometric method for solving cubic equations by intersecting a hyperbola with a circle He also contributed to calendar reform and may have proposed a heliocentric theory well before Copernicus.
Answered by jameel ahmed, 21 Oct '12 07:23 pm
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