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Omar Khayyam

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Omar Khayyam

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Omar Khayyam was born in Nishapur, Iran on May 18, in 1048

OMAR Khayyam EDUCATION

  • Received education on many subjects
  • One of his teachers Bahmanyar bin Marzban, studied science, philosophy, and mathematics with Omar
  • He also studied scripture with Imán Mowaffak of Naishápúr

Inventions

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  • he discovered how to extend Abu al-Wafā’s results on the extraction of cube and fourth roots to the extraction of nth roots of numbers for arbitrary whole numbers n.
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  • He came up with a Jalālī calendar, Based on making 8 of every 33 years leap years, it was more accurate than the present Gregorian calendar that they had previously

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OMAR Khayyam

DIED ON DECEMBER 4, 1131 IN NISHAPUR