Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyām (Persian: عمر خیام) or Omar Khayyam (b. May 18 1048 Nishapur, (Iran) – d. December 4 1131) was a Persian, mathematician, astronomer and poet.
Omar Khayyám | |
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| Era | Islamic Golden Age |
| Region | Persian scholar |
| School | Persian mathematics, Persian poetry, Persian philosophy |
Main interests | Poetry, Mathematics, Islamic philosophy, Astronomy |
Influences
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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.
Omar Khayyam Media
Mausoleum of Omar Khayyam in Nishapur, Iran. Some of his rubáiyáts are used as calligraphic (taliq script) decoration on the exterior body of his mausoleum.
"Cubic equation and intersection of conic sections" the first page of a two-chaptered manuscript kept in Tehran University.
Omar Khayyam's construction of a solution to the cubic x3 + 2x = 2x2 + 2. The intersection point produced by the circle and the hyperbola determine the desired segment.
Representation of the intercalation scheme of the Jalali calendar
Rendition of a ruba'i from the Bodleian manuscript, rendered in Shekasteh calligraphy.
Ottoman Era inscription of a poem written by Omar Khayyam at Morića Han in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
A line of English translation of The Moving Finger quatrain. Persian Rubiyats of Omar Khayyam on one the faculty buildings of Leiden University
"A Ruby kindles in the vine", illustration for FitzGerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Adelaide Hanscom Leeson (c. 1905).
"At the Tomb of Omar Khayyam" by Jay Hambidge (1911).
The statue of Khayyam in United Nations Office in Vienna as a part of Persian Scholars Pavilion donated by Iran.
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References
- 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
Related pages
Other websites
- Works by Omar Khayyám at Project Gutenberg
- The Persian Poet (http://www.omar-khayyam.org Archived 2010-03-30 at the Wayback Machine) - Contains the translations by Edward FitzGerald and a biography.
- The Rubaiyat Archived 2011-06-03 at the Wayback Machine
- On Omar's solutions to cubic equations Archived 2003-12-12 at the Wayback Machine
- Khayyam, Umar. A biography by Professor Iraj Bashiri, University of Minnesota.
- O'Connor, John J; Edmund F. Robertson "Omar Khayyam". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- The Quatrains of Omar Khayyam Archived 2007-02-13 at the Wayback Machine