Omar khayyam biography book

          Khayyam was a brilliant, controversial eleventh century Persian mathematician and astronomer....

          This is grand reading, this story of the Persian poet, known to the modern world through the Rubaiyat - to his own times as a famous astronomer.

        1. This is grand reading, this story of the Persian poet, known to the modern world through the Rubaiyat - to his own times as a famous astronomer.
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        3. Khayyam was a brilliant, controversial eleventh century Persian mathematician and astronomer.
        4. This biography expertly weaves together his monumental contributions to mathematics and astronomy with the depth and beauty of his enduring.
        5. Omar Khayyam, was a worldly recognized Persian mathematician, philosopher, astronomer and mostly poet.

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          Born
          18 May 1048
          Nishapur, Persia (now Iran)
          Died
          4 December 1131
          Nishapur, Persia (now Iran)
          Summary
          Omar Khayyam was an Islamic scholar who was a poet as well as a mathematician.

          He compiled astronomical tables and contributed to calendar reform and discovered a geometrical method of solving cubic equations by intersecting a parabola with a circle.

          Biography

          Omar Khayyam's full name was Ghiyath al-Din Abu'l-Fath Umar ibn Ibrahim Al-Nisaburi al-Khayyami. A literal translation of the name al-Khayyami (or al-Khayyam) means 'tent maker' and this may have been the trade of Ibrahim his father.

          Khayyam played on the meaning of his own name when he wrote:-

          Khayyam, who stitched the tents of science,
          Has fallen in grief's furnace and been suddenly burned,
          The shears of Fate have cut the tent ropes of his life,
          And the broker of Hope has sold him for nothing!
          The political events of the 11th Century played a major role in the course of Khayyam