Omar Khayyam
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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OMAR KHAYYAM o mar kiam , fl. 11th cent., Persian poet and mathematician, b. Nishapur. He was called Khayyam tentmaker probably because of his fathers occupation. The details of his life are mostly conjectural, but he was well educated and...