Omar Khayyám

The man known in English as the Persian poet Omar Khayyám (May 18 1048 - December 4 1123, assumed dates) was born in Nishapur (or Naishapur) in Khorasan, Persia (Iran), and named Ghiyath al-Din Abu'l-Fath Umar ibn Ibrahim Al-Nisaburi al-Khayyami (al-Khayyami means "the tentmaker"). His name in Persian is "??? ????".

External links

• {{gutenberg author|id=Omar_Khayyám|name=Omar Khayyám}}
• The Rubaiyat
• Os Rubaiyat de Omar Khayyam
• On Omar's solutions to cubic equations
• Khayyam, Umar. A biography by Professor Iraj Bashiri, University of Minnesota.
• Biography by School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland