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Iran & Persia - Omar Khayyam - The Poet of Uncertainty 3 of 5 - BBC Culture Documentary, recorded 01.11.2009 Omar Khayyam (Persian: عمر خیام), (born 1048 AD, Neyshapur, Iran 1131 AD, Neyshapur, Iran), was a Persian polymath, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer, physician, and poet. He also wrote treatises on mechanics, geography, and music.
He has also become established as one of the major mathematicians and astronomers of the medieval period. Recognized as the author of the most important treatise on algebra before modern times as reflected in his Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra giving 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.
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