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Google celebrates Omar Khayyam’s birthday with doodle



Tech giant Google on Saturday honored Persian mathematician Omar Khayyam on his 971st birthday with a doodle.

The mathematician was best known for his work on the classification and solution of cubic equations.

Khayyam was first to give a general method for solving cubic equations.

Apart from India, the doodle would also appear to Google users in Russia, the Middle East, North African nations, the US and Chile.

Publish Date : 18 May 2019 14:29 PM

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