Khayyam biography
Persian Poet, Astronomer & Mathematician ...!
Khayyam biography
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Nishapur, Persia (now Iran)
Nishapur, Persia (now Iran)
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,The political events of the 11th Century played a major role in the course of Khayyam
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!