Omar Khayyam born in Nishapur, Persia. The mathematician, astronomer, and poet may have been the first to claim cubic equations--and hence angle trisection--could not be solved with straightedge and compass. Pierre Wantzel gave a proof in 1837.
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Omar Khayyam
Pierre Wantzel
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Omar Khayyam
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