Omar Khayyám
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| Omar Khayyám | |
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| Full name | Omar Khayyám |
| Era | Islamic Golden Age |
| Region | Persian scholar |
| School | Persian mathematics, Persian poetry, Persian philosophy |
| Main interests | Poetry, Mathematics, Islamic philosophy, Astronomy |
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Hakim Ghiyās al-Dīn Abu al-Fath Omār ibn Ibrāhīm Khayyām Nishābūrī (Persian: غیاث الدین ابو الفتح عمر بن ابراهیم خیام نیشابوری) or Omar Khayyam (b. May 18, 1048 Nishapur, (Iran)–d. December 4, 1131) was a Persian poet, mathematician, astronomer and Sufi mystic who was born in Nishapur in Persia.
He is best known for his poetry and it is because of translations of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Edward Fitzgerald.
References [change]
- E.G. Browne. Literary History of Persia. (Four volumes, 2,256 pages, and 25 years in the writing). 1998. ISBN 0-7007-0406-X
- Jan Rypka, History of Iranian Literature. Reidel Publishing Company. 1968. ISBN 90-277-0143-1
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- Works by Omar Khayyám at Project Gutenberg
- 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.
- O'Connor, John J; Edmund F. Robertson "Omar Khayyám". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- The Quatrains of Omar Khayyam
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