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A poet who explored number puzzles
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Ages 7–9Omar Khayyam is known for poetry and for work in mathematics.
He studied cubic equations, in which an unknown can be raised to the third power.
His work included methods for solving cubic equations.
1001 Inventions places him in the history of algebra after al-Khwarizmi and al-Karaji.
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Can you explain a number pattern using both a picture and words?
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