Omar Khayyam was born in 1048 in Nishapur. He studied there, later continued his studies at the largest centers of science of that time Balkhe, Samarkand, etc., being twenty -one years old, from the clan, Omar Hayyam wrote a treatise “On evidence of the tasks of algebra and Allukabala.” In 1074 he headed the largest astronomical observatory in Isfahan. In 1077, he finished writing the book “Comments on the difficult postulates of the Book of Euclid.” In 1079 he created a more accurate calendar compared to the European calendar, which has been officially used since the XI century.
After the change of ruler Isfahan, the observatory was closed. Omar Khayyam made a pilgrimage to Mecca, then worked as a doctor in Khorasan and wrote a treatise on Farsi’s language “On the universality of being.” Heyam spent the last years of his life in solitude.
How reliable is the biography of a person who lived a thousand years ago? And was such a person really? The life of Omar Khayyam is shrouded in legends, myths and speculation. Today it is even impossible to determine how many quatrains are genuinely Khayyamo …
Author
Hayam Omar
Translator
Balmont Konstantin Dmitrievich, Thorzhevsky Ivan Ivanovich, Vatagin M. + more 2 more
Publisher
AST, 2011
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