Iranian thinker
Omar Khayyam
Omar KhayyamPhilosophy, Mathematics, LiteratureIranian1048–1131
Of the past, which is gone, make no memory at all, / Of the future, not yet come, raise no cry, no call. / On what is not yet, and what is past, do not build. / Be happy now, and cast not your life to the wind.
Life and Thought
Ghiyath al-Din Abu al-Fath Omar ibn Ibrahim Khayyam Nishapuri, known as Omar Khayyam, was an Iranian philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, and quatrain poet of the 5th and 6th centuries AH. His global fame today largely rests on the quatrains attributed to him.
Bibliography
Writings and transcribed lectures11 titles
Treatise on the Proofs of Algebra and Equations
Treatise on the Explanation of the Difficulties in Euclid's Postulates
Mizan al-Hikmah
Qistas al-Mustaqim
Problems of Arithmetic
Zij-i Malikshahi
Treatise on Existence
Treatise on the Science of the Universals of Existence
Treatise on Being and Duty
Treatise on the Necessity of Contradiction in the World and Determinism and Survival
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
