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4 days ago · Ghiyāth al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīsābūrī [1] [3] (18 May 1048 – 4 December 1131), commonly known as Omar Khayyam ( Persian: عمر خیّام ), [a] was a Persian polymath, known for his contributions to mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, and poetry.
Jul 1, 2024 · Omar Khayyam was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet, renowned in his own country and time for his scientific achievements but chiefly known to English-speaking readers through the translation of a collection of his robāʿīyāt (“quatrains”) in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859), by the
Jul 6, 2024 · Omar Khayyam. Director, Institute for the History of Science, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Author of several works on medieval and early modern mathematics. Professor of the History of Science, Stanford University, California. Author of Ancient Tradition of Geometric problems and others.
4 days ago · His role in the controversy surrounding a new translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, published by his friend Robert Graves and his older brother Omar Ali-Shah, came in for particular scrutiny. However, he also had many notable defenders, chief among them the novelist Doris Lessing.
Jul 9, 2024 · The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the Astronomer-poet of Persia, rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald; the four editions with the original prefaces and notes.
3 days ago · The pavilion features the statues of al-Razi, Avicenna, Abu Rayhan Biruni, and Omar Khayyam. George Sarton remarked him as "greatest physician of Islam and the Medieval Ages".
Jun 23, 2024 · "Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam, the Astronomer Poet of Persia." MSS 711, Gordon A. Pfeiffer collection of Will Bradley material, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware. . Accessed 23 June 2024.
