What is Omar Khayyam?
{{Infobox Philosopher <!-- Scroll down to edit this page --> <!-- Philosopher Category --> |caption =Statue of Omar Khayyam in [[Nishapur]] |image = | region = [[List of Iranian scientists and scholars|Persian scholar]] | era = [[Islamic Golden Age]] | color = #B0C4DE | name = '''Omar Khayyám''' | | birth = [[1048 in poetry|1048]] | death = [[1131 in poetry|1131]] | school_tradition = Persian mathematics, [[Persian language|Persian]] [[poetry]], [[Persian people|Persian]] [[philosophy]] | main_interests = [[Persian literature|Poetry]], [[Islamic mathematics|Mathematics]], [[Islamic philosophy]], [[Islamic astronomy|Astronomy]] | influences = [[Avicenna]], [[Euclid]], [[Apollonius of Perga]] | influenced = | notable_ideas = }}<nowiki> </nowiki>'''Omar Khayyām''' ({{lang-fa|عمر خیام}}) or '''Omar Khayyam''' (18 May 1048 Nishapur, ([[Iran]]) – 4 December 1131) was a [[Persian people|Persian]], [[mathematician]], [[astronomer]] and [[poet]]. In mathematics he contributed to the theory of equations, to the understanding of the [[Parallel postulate|parallel axiom]], and possibly to the generalization of the [[Binomial expansion|binomial theorem]]. As an astronomer he contributed to a calendar reform when Sultan Malik-Shah decided that the calendar needed some adjusting. He is best known for his [[agnosticism|agnostic]] and [[scepticism|sceptic]] poetry, largely because of the publication in 1859 of ''[[Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam]]'' by the translator [[Edward Fitzgerald]]. == References == * E.G. Browne. ''Literary History of Persia''. (Four volumes, 2,256 pages, and 25 years in the writing). 1998. {{ISBN|0-7007-0406-X}} * Jan Rypka, ''History of Iranian Literature''. Reidel Publishing Company. 1968. {{ISBN|90-277-0143-1}} ==Related pages== * [[List of Persian poets and authors]] == Other websites == {{wikiquote-en|Omar Khayyam}} {{Commons|Omar Khayyam}} * {{gutenberg author|id=Omar_Khayyám|name=Omar Khayyám}} * The Persian Poet (http://www.omar-khayyam.org {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/