Photo's of Physic's Master

Photo's of Physic's Master

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Abul Fath Umar Ibn Ibrahim al-Khayyam

Abu’l Fath `Abd al-Rahman al-Khazini
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Al-Khazini was an astronomer and physician in Persia at the beginning of the 6th/12th century. Little is known about his life, other than originally he was a young Greek slave of `Ali b. Muhammad, treasurer of the court in Marw, who ensured that he received an excellent education.
Know for his tranlation of the Rubaiyat
* Solutions of equations of cubic order
* Wrote on conic geomatry elaborating the solution of algebraic equations
* Determined the Trinomial Equation