The Rubayyat of Omar Khayyam 1.0


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The Rubayyat of Omar Khayyam
by Omar Khayyam, tr. by Edward Fitzgerald


The Rubayyat of Omar Khayyam Translated, by Edward Fitzgerald.

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"Ghiyas od-Din Abul-Fatah Omar ibn Ibrahim Khayyam Nishaburi or Omar Khayyam (Nishapur, Persia, May 18, 1048 - December 4, 1131) was a Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher and astronomer who lived in Persia. His name is also given as Omar al-Khayyami. He is best known for his poetry, and outside Iran, for the quatrains (rubaiyaas) in Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, popularized through Edward Fitzgerald's re-created translation. His substantial mathematical contributions include his Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra, which gives a geometric method for solving cubic equations by intersecting a hyperbola with a circle. He also contributed to calendar reform and may have proposed a heliocentric theory well before Copernicus."
The Rubayyat of Omar Khayyam



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