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Omar Khayyam (c. 1038/48 in Iran – 1123/24) [12] wrote the Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra containing the systematic solution of cubic or third-order equations, going beyond the Algebra of al-Khwārizmī. [13] Khayyám obtained the solutions of these equations by finding the intersection points of two conic sections.
An artificially produced word problem is a genre of exercise intended to keep mathematics relevant. Stephen Leacock described this type: [ 1 ] The student of arithmetic who has mastered the first four rules of his art and successfully striven with sums and fractions finds himself confronted by an unbroken expanse of questions known as problems.