| Name
/ Title |
OMAR KHAYYAM |
| Date of
Birth |
May 18, 1048 |
| Date of
Death |
December 04, 1131 |
| Identity |
Persian Polymath, Scholar, mathematician, astronomer,
philosopher, and poet |
| General |
- He was one of the major mathematicians and
astronomers of the medieval period.
- English scholar Thomas Hyde was the first
non-Persian to study and introduce him to the
Western world.
- Later, Edward FitzGerald translated
some quatrains in the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and thus made
him known as the most famous poet of the East.
- In March, 1079, Sultan Malik Shah of Iran
accepted the calendar introduced by Khayyam
as the official Persian calendar. This
calendar was known as the Jalali calendar
after the Sultan, and was in force across Greater Iran from
the 11th to the 20th centuries. Jalali calendar is based on
actual solar transit, similar to Hindu calendars,
and requires an ephemeris for calculating dates.
- Khayyam's poetry is translated into
many languages.
- A lunar crater Omar Khayyam was named
after him in 1970.
- A minor planet called 3095 Omarkhayyam,
discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Zhuravlyova in
1980, is named after him.
- Omar Khayyam (also released as The Life,
Loves and Adventures of Omar Khayyam) is an
American movie directed by William Dieterle, released in
1957.
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