Omar Khayyam

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Islamic Golden Age scholar Persian poet astronomer human mathematician philosopher poet polymath

Omar Khayyam was an 11th–12th century Persian polymath renowned as a poet, mathematician, and astronomer, best known in the West for the Rubáiyát in its English translation.

Aliases (2)

Statements (58)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Islamic Golden Age scholar → Persian poet → astronomer → human → mathematician → philosopher → poet → polymath →
birthDate	1048 →
birthPlace	Khorasan → Nishapur → Persia →
burialPlace	Nishapur →
calendarContribution	Jalali calendar →
centuryOfActivity	11th century → 12th century →
citizenship	Seljuk Empire →
deathDate	1131 →
deathPlace	Khorasan → Nishapur → Persia →
employer	Seljuk court →
era	Islamic Golden Age →
ethnicGroup	Persian →
familyName	al-Khayyam →
fieldOfWork	algebra → astronomy → geometry → philosophy → poetry →
fullName	Ghiyath al-Din Abu’l-Fath Umar ibn Ibrahim al-Khayyam Nishapuri →
genre	lyric poetry → philosophical poetry →
givenName	Umar →
hasEnglishReception	popularized by Edward FitzGerald’s translation of the Rubaiyat →
hasForm	quatrain →
influenced	Persian literature → Western poetry →
influencedBy	Greek philosophy → Islamic philosophy →
knownFor	classification of cubic equations → geometric solutions of cubic equations → reform of the Persian calendar → work on the parallel postulate →
language	Arabic → Persian →
name	Omar Khayyam →
notableWork	Commentary on the Difficulties of Certain Postulates of Euclid → Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam → Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra →
occupation	astronomer → calendar reformer → mathematician → philosopher → poet →
religion	Islam →
workLocation	Isfahan → Nishapur →

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Omar →	hasNotableBearer
Islamic mathematics →	majorFigure
Omar Khayyam →	name
Persian →	notablePoets
Nishapur →	notableResident
Islamic Golden Age →	notableScholar
Persians →	notableWriter