Omar Khayyam

Omar Khayyam (Persian: عمر خیام), who lived from 1048 to 1123 of the Christian era, was a Persian[1] polymath[2][3]: mathematician, philosopher, astronomer and above all[4] poet.
Omar Khayyám
Portrait of Khayyam at his Mausoleum in Nishapur
Full name
Omar Khayyám
Birth
May 18, 1048
Death
December 4, 1122
School/tradition

He has also become established as one of the major mathematicians and astronomers of the medieval period. Recognised as the author of the most important treatise on algebra before modern times as reflected in his Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra giving a geometric method for solving cubic equations by intersecting a hyperbola with a circle.[5] He also contributed to calendar reform and may have proposed a heliocentric theory well before Copernicus.[citation needed]
His significance as a philosopher and teacher, and his few remaining philosophical works have not received the same attention as have his scientific or poetic writings. Zamakhshari referred to him as “the philosopher of the world”. Many sources have also testified that he taught for decades the philosophy of Ibn Sina in Nayshapur where Khayyam lived most of his life, breathed his last, and was buried and where his mausoleum remains today a masterpiece of Iranian architecture visited by many people every year.[6]
Outside Iran and Persian speaking countries, Khayyam has had impact on literature and societies through translation and works of scholars. The greatest such impact was in English-speaking countries - the English scholar Thomas Hyde (1636-1703) was the first non-Persian to study Omar Khayyam. However the most influential of all was Edward FitzGerald (1809-83)[7] who made Khayyam the most famous poet of the East in the West through his celebrated translation and adaptations of Khayyam's rather small number of quatrains (rubaiyaas) in Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.