About Omar Khayyám
Omar
Khayyam (1048–1123) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, and
poet, renowned in his own country and time for his scientific achievements but largely
known to the English-speaking world as the author of Edward Fitzgerald’s
collection of translated quatrains, The Rubaiyat
of Omar Khayyam. In addition to poetry, Khayyam also made major
contributions to the fields of algebra and geometry. In The History of Western
Philosophy Betrand Russell remarks that he was the only man known to him
who was both a poet and a mathematician.