Omar Khayyam

Omar Khayyām () or Omar Khayyam (18 May 1048 Nishapur, (Iran) – 4 December 1131) was a Persian, mathematician, astronomer and poet.

In mathematics he contributed to the theory of equations, to the understanding of the parallel axiom, and possibly to the generalization of the binomial theorem. As an astronomer he contributed to a calendar reform when Sultan Malik-Shah decided that the calendar needed some adjusting. He is best known for his agnostic and sceptic poetry, largely because of the publication in 1859 of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by the translator Edward Fitzgerald.

 References 
 E.G. Browne. Literary History of Persia. (Four volumes, 2,256 pages, and 25 years in the writing). 1998. 
 Jan Rypka, History of Iranian Literature. Reidel Publishing Company. 1968. 

Related pages
 List of Persian poets and authors

 Other websites 


 The Persian Poet (http://www.omar-khayyam.org ) - Contains the translations by Edward FitzGerald and a biography.
 The Rubaiyat 
 On Omar's solutions to cubic equations 
 Khayyam, Umar. A biography by Professor Iraj Bashiri, University of Minnesota.

 The Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 

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