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	Omar Khayyám - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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").
		Khayyam eventually was obliged to make a hajj [pilgrimage] to Mecca in order to prove he was a faithful follower of the religion.
		Omar's life is dramatized in the 1957 film Omar Khayyam starring Cornel Wilde, Debra Page, Raymond Massey, Michael Rennie, and John Derek.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Omar_Khayyam (466 words)

	Persian Language & Literature: Omar Khayyam
		Omar Khayyam was an outstanding mathematician and astronomer.
		Omar Khayyam was born in 1044 CE at Nishapur (or Nishabur), the provincial capital of Khorasan.
		Omar Khayyam was a contemporary of Nizam al-Mulk Tusi.
	www.iranchamber.com /literature/khayyam/khayyam.php (688 words)

	Omar Khayyám - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The man known in English as the 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").
		Khayyam eventually made a hajj [pilgrimage] to Mecca in order to prove he was a faithful follower of the religion.
		Omar's life is dramatized in the 1957 film starring Cornel Wilde,, Raymond Massey, Michael Rennie, and John Derek.
	www.newlenox.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Omar_Khayyam (457 words)

	Omar Khayyam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The man known in English as the poet Omar Khayyám (May 18 1048 - December 4 1131, 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").
		Omar Khayyám is famous today not for his scientific accomplishments, but for his literary works, about a thousand four-line verses he is believed to have written.
		Khayyam himself clearly was not an atheist, but a Sufi, and a devout Muslim, though perhaps in somewhat unorthdox way for his time.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/omar_khayyam (463 words)

	Omar Khayyam
		Khayyam also solved the cubic equation x3 + 200x = 20x2 + 2000 and he found a positive root of this cube by considering the intersection of a rectangular hyperbola and a circle.
		Khayyam seems to have been the first to conceive a general theory of cubic equations, and perhaps even more remarkable was that Khayyam stated that the solution of this equation requires the use of conic sections and not the ruler and compass method, a result which would not be proven for another 750 years!
		Khayyam furthered his mathematical talent in his work, the Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra, which contained a complete classification of cubic equations with geometric solutions found by means of intersecting conic sections.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Khayyam.html (392 words)

	The Islamic World to 1600: The Arts, Learning, and Knowledge (Omar Khayyam) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Born Ghiyath al-Din Abul Fatah Umar Ibn Ibrahim al-Khayyam in 1044 in Nishapur, a Persian city, Omar Khayyam was a well-known mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet.
		Khayyam's calendar, called Al-Tarikh-al-Jalali after the sultan, was even more accurate than the Gregorian calendar presently used in most of the world: the Jalali calendar had an error of one day in 3770 years, while the Gregorian had an error of one day in 3330 years.
		Khayyam's legacy remains largely in science, however, with his work in geometry so far ahead of its time that it was not used again until René Descartes built upon Khayyam's theories in 17th century France.
	www.ucalgary.ca /applied_history/tutor/islam/learning/khayyam.html (439 words)

	" Force - in justice. Omar Khayyam. 950 years from the date of birth".
		Gias ad-din Fatkh ibn Ibragim Omar Khayyam Nishapuri was born in Nishapur, learnt in this city.
		On a rich historical material the researchers have proved merits Omar Khayyam as one of the scientist, which has made a number of major discoveries in astronomy, mathematicians and physics.
		Khayyam passionately wished the rebuilding of the world and did for this purpose all he can: discovered the laws of a nature, entered into secrets of world creation.This one more proof that in middle centuries, during inquisition, the spiritual development of the human society not stopped and could not stop.
	www.nlr.ru:8101 /eng/exib/omar/omar-e.htm (763 words)

	AllRefer.com - Omar Khayyam (Asian Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		He was called Khayyam [tentmaker] probably because of his father's occupation.
		Although he wrote a number of important mathematical studies, Omar's fame as a scientist has been greatly eclipsed in the West by the popularity of his Rubaiyat, epigrammatic verse quatrains.
		FitzGerald omitted many of the quatrains (which were independent and unconnected) and rearranged them into a unity expressing his conception of Omar's philosophy; it is, however, impossible to establish definitely that many of the nearly 500 quatrains attributed to Omar are really his work.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/O/OmarKhay.html (340 words)

	Omar Al-Khayyam, 1044-1123 C.E. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Omar Khayyam reformed the solar calendar in 1079 C.E. His work on Algebra was highly valued throughout Europe in the Middle Ages.
		Omar Khayyam was born in 1044 C.E. at Nishapur, the provincial capital of Khurasan.
		To accomplish this task, Omar Khayyam began his work at the new observatory at Ray in 1074 C.E. His calendar ‘Al-Tarikh-al-Jalali’ is superior to the Georgian calendar and is accurate to within one day in 3770 years.
	www.unhas.ac.id /~rhiza/saintis/khayyam.html (545 words)

	OMAR AL-KHAYYAM
		Ghiyath al-Din Abul Fateh Omar Ibn Ibrahim al-Khayyam was born at Nishapur, the provincial capital of Khurasan around 1044 A.D. (c.
		Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, physician and poet, he is commonly known as Omar Khayyam.
		Khayyam means the tent-maker, and although generally considered as Persian, it has also been suggested that he could have belonged to the Khayyami tribe of Arab origin who might have settled in Persia.
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	Omar Khayyam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Each of Omar's quatrains was originally composed on a particular occasion and forms a complete poem in itself.
		A close reading of the authentic verses reveals Omar as a man of deep thought, troubled by the questions of the nature of reality and the eternal, the impermanence and uncertainty of life, and man's relationship to God.
		Omar doubts the existence of divine providence and the afterlife, derides religious certainty, and is disturbed by man's frailty and ignorance.
	www.mcs.csuhayward.edu /~malek/Clicktownfolder/Persianfolder/Omarbio.html (447 words)

	Omar Khayyam
		In this book, there is also reference to another work by Khayyam on what is now known as Pascal's triangle, where he used a method of finding nth roots based on the binomial expansion, and therefore on the binomial coefficients.
		Khayyam led work on compiling astronomical tables and he also contributed to calendar reform in 1079.
		But now Khayyam is remembered mostly for his poetry, collected in Rubaiyat, even if it is believed that a large part of the 1,000 four-line stanzas can not be attributed to him.
	goto.bilkent.edu.tr /gunes/SAGES/OmarKhayyam.htm (422 words)

	Omar Al-Khayyam
		Omar Al-Khayyam, best known for his poetic masterpiece simply called Rubaiyat (quatrains) was born in Nishapur, Persia in 1044 C.E., in what is today the country of Iran.
		Khayyam is said to be the first to develop the binomial theorem and determine binomial coefficients.
		The result was Khayyam's development of a calendar `Al-Tarikh-al-Jalali' that was precisely accurate to within one day in 3770 years and was superior to the Gregorian calendar (he measured the year with an accuracy of 365.24219858156 days).
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/islam_in_the_us/24369 (546 words)

	Khayyam
		Indeed, as Khayyam writes, the contributions by earlier writers such as al-Mahani and al-Khazin were to translate geometric problems into algebraic equations (something which was essentially impossible before the work of al-Khwarizmi).
		The importance of Khayyam's contribution is that he examined both Euclid's definition of equality of ratios (which was that first proposed by Eudoxus) and the definition of equality of ratios as proposed by earlier Islamic mathematicians such as al-Mahani which was based on
		Khayyam's fame as a poet has caused some to forget his scientific achievements which were much more substantial.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Khayyam.html (1868 words)

	Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nicolas took the view that Khayyam himself clearly was a Sufi.
		Fitzgerald gave the Rubaiyat a distinct fatalistic spin, although it has been claimed that he softened the impact of Khayyam's nihilism and his preoccupation with the mortality and transience of all things.
		As a work of accurate line-by-line translation of Omar Khayyam's quatrains, it is noted more for freedom than for fidelity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rubaiyat_of_Omar_Khayyam (1447 words)

	The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
		Omar Khayyam (sometimes spelled Khaiyyam) was born in Naishapur, Khorassan (in the northeast area of modern day Iran) in the latter half of the 11th century, A.D. He died in 1123.
		Omar, once a tent-maker, was given a yearly pension and proceeded to study many subjects, becoming especially proficient in Astronomy.
		The Malik Shah appointed Omar Khayyam to help reform the calendar, and he and seven other learned men created the Jalali era system which reportedly surpassed the Julian calendar's accuracy and came close to that of the Gregorian.
	www.fleurdelis.com /omarkhayyam.htm (496 words)

	UzDessert - Your Guide to Uzbek Culture! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Omar Khayyam was born at Nishapur in Khorassan in the second half of 11th century and died within the first quarter of 12th century.
		Yet another type of thought is that Khayyam understood his mortality and inability to look beyond, and his references to wine and lovers are very literal and sensual.
		Khayyam understood that it was our fate, our destiny, something beyond our control to be born into this world.
	www.uzdessert.uz /ver4/literature/omark.html (258 words)

	Index to Poetry - the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
		Depending on the sources of reference that one chooses, Omar Khayyam is believed to have composed somewhere between 200 and 600 Rubaiyat (quatrains).
		Some are known to be authentic and are attributed to him, while others seem to be combinations or corruption of his poetry, and whose origins are more dubious.
		The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is among the few masterpieces that has been translated into most languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Hindi, Arabic, and Urdu.
	www.okonlife.com /poems (417 words)

	Neyshabur - The ancient capital and cultural center, Home of Turquoise, Hakim Omar-e-Khayyam and Attar-e Neyshaburi
		In the lost work Khayyam discusses Pascal's triangle but he was not the first to do so since the Chinese may have discussed Pascal's triangle slightly before this date.
		The algebra of Khayyam is geometrical, solving linear and quadratic equations by methods appearing in Euclid's Elements.
		Khayyam also gave important results on ratios giving a new definition and extending Euclid's work to include the multiplication of ratios.
	www.farsinet.com /mashhad/neyshabur.html (1032 words)

	Omar Khayyam
		However Khayyam was an outstanding mathematician and astronomer and he did write several works including Problems of Arithmetic, a book on music, and one on algebra before he was 25 years old.
		Perhaps even more remarkable is the fact that Khayyam states that the solution of this cubic requires the use of conic sections and that it cannot be solved by ruler and compass methods, a result which would not be proved for another 750 years.
		In fact, Khayyam gives an interesting historical account in which he claims the contributions by earlier writers such as Al-Mahani and Al-Khazin were to translate geometric problems of the Greeks into algebraic equations, something which was essentially impossible before the work of Al-Khwarizmi.
	www.stetson.edu /~efriedma/periodictable/html/O.html (839 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Omar Khayyam (1048-1122) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who was not known as a poet in his lifetime.
		Omar Khayyam (1048-1131) was a Persian mathematician whom we in the West know primarily as the poet of the Rubaiyat (literally: quatrains).
		What I missed in Peter Avery's translations, though, was the joy Omar Khayyam must have felt when he created a new quatrain to remind himself to seize the day, to change his state of mind (that's a polite way of describing "to get drunk") or just to invent a polished metaphor or rhyme.
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	Amazon.com: Books: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Omar wrote poetry, and while his rhymes received little attention in their day, they were rediscovered and translated into beautiful English--more than seven centuries later--by a gentleman and scholar named Edward FitzGerald.
		With their concern for the here and now, as opposed to the hereafter, Omar Khayyam's quatrains are as romantic today as they were hundreds of years ago; they are a tribute to the power of one moment's pleasure over a lifetime of sorrow, of desire over the vicissitudes of time.
		Omar Khayyam was an agreeable man little given to conflict, though he did sometimes tease the devout in his world.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312695276?v=glance (2271 words)

	The Rubayyat of Omar Khayyam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Omar Khayyam is the most famous Persian mathematician and poet.
		Robaiyyate Omar Khayyam was translated to English by Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883).
		Khayyam is best known as a result of Edward Fitzgerald's popular translation in 1859 of nearly 600 short four line poems the Rubaiyat.
	www.seas.upenn.edu /~anantm/anant3.html (494 words)

	Omar Khayyam -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The mathematician and poet Omar Khayyam was born in Neyshabur (in modern Iran) only a few years before al-Biruni's death.
		The work done in mathematics by early Arabic scholars and by al-Biruni was continued by Omar Khayyam (died 1122), to whom the Seljuq empire in fact owes the reform of its calendar.
		The work of 12th-century Persian poet Omar Khayyám was largely unknown in the Western world until it was compiled and translated by Edward FitzGerald in 1859 as the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?eu=58508 (692 words)

	Omar Khayyam - The Rubayyat of Omar Khayyam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The character of Safar Timura is loosely based on Omar Khayyam, the ancient Persian poet and astronomer.
		Khayyam (A.D. 1044-1123) is best known to us today for his poetry, collected in the remarkable "Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam." Of all the many English translations of this work, I prefer Edward Fitzgerald’s.
		Khayyam's contributions to other fields of science include a study of generalities of Euclid, development of methods for the accurate determination of specific gravity, etc. In metaphysics, he wrote three books Risala Dar Wujud and the recently discovered Nauruz-namah.
	www.acole.com /novels/timuras/khayyam.html (3825 words)

	The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam
		His dying brother, Nader, begins telling him the story as we flash back from the modern day to the epic past where the relationship between Omar Khayyam, Hassan Sabbah (the original creator of the sect of Assassins) and their mutual love for a beautiful woman separate them from their eternal bond of friendship.
		It is finally revealed to him that it wasn't Omar's poetry that made him important, it was the poetry of his life.
		Omar Khayyam lived an outer life of great productivity and renown, in the service of an absolute monarch and under the watchful eye of a strict religious authority.
	www.levantinecenter.org /pages/thekeeper.html (571 words)

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