Omar Khayyam
1048 – 1131 Persian mathematician, astronomer, poet
The Persian polymath famed for algebra and for the Rubaiyat.
- Religion
- Muslim, though his poetry voices skepticism and doubt about the afterlife.
- Affiliations
- Court scholar of the Seljuk empire. No secret society.
Omar Khayyam advanced algebra with geometric solutions to cubic equations and helped reform the Persian calendar. In the West he is best known for the Rubaiyat, quatrains on wine, mortality, and doubt made famous by a Victorian translation. He united science and poetry.
In the timeline
- 1070 Omar Khayyam solves cubic equations by geometry central figure