O·mar Khay·yám (  mär k -yäm, - m) 1050?-1123. Persian poet, mathematician, and astronomer remembered for his collection of quatrains The Rubáiyat of Omar Khayyám, translated by Edward FitzGerald (1859). |
Omar Khayyám [ˈəʊmɑː kaɪˈɑːm]
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(Biographies / Omar Khayyám (?1050-?1123) M, Persian, WRITING: poet, SCIENCE: mathematician, SCIENCE: astronomer) ?1050-?1123, Persian poet, mathematician, and astronomer, noted for the Rubáiyát, a collection of quatrains, popularized in the West by Edward Fitzgerald's version (1859)
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