Google Doodle Celebrates Persian Mathematician, Poet Omar Khayyum | World - NDTV

With a doodle, Google celebrated the birth anniversary of Omar Khayyam, the first mathematician to give a general method for solving cubic equations, as NDTV reports.

Google Doodle paid tribute to the mathematician Omar Khayyam
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Today's Google Doodle celebrates the birth anniversary of Persian mathematician, astronomer and poet Omar Khayyam. The Iran-born mathematician was known for his work on the classification and solution of cubic equations...

He is known for his work on the theory of parallels and geometric algebra. He was the first mathematician to give a general method for solving cubic equations. His methods were sufficient to geometrically find all real roots of cubic equations.
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Source: NDTV