Omar Khayyam

Mathematician, Astronomer & Poet

(1048 – 1131) · Central Asia

Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet born around 1048 in Nishapur, best known in the English-speaking world through Edward FitzGerald's translation of his Rubaiyat. His quatrains explore pleasure, impermanence, and scepticism toward religious certainty with elegant brevity.