Iran Press/Iran news: The name of this Iranian poet and philosopher is ranked beside the four great poets of the world, namely Homer, Shakespeare, Dante, and Goethe.
Hakim Omar Khayyam Neyshabouri, an Iranian poet, was born in 439 AH in Neyshabour, northeastern Iran, and died in the year 517 AH.
Omar Khayyam's full name was Ghiyath al-Din Abu'l-Fath Umar ibn Ibrahim Al-Nisaburi al-Khayyami.
He is popular for several mathematical and scientific discoveries. He was the first to provide a solution for cubic equations. He also provided geometric solutions for the same by the intersection of conics.
The statue dedicated to Omar Khayyam
Khayyam's list of contributions also included a solar calendar near-precise 33-year intercalation cycle, known as the Jalali calendar. Jalali later became the base of many other calendars.
Besides mathematics and philosophy, Khayyam also contributed to Literature.
His fame in the west, however, rests upon the translation of the English writer Edward Fitzgerald of his poems in the book the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
Khayyam keeps returning to a specific message in many of his quatrains, one which stresses the importance of living for today, because the future is uncertain and life is fleeting. His works often contemplate the riddle of life, and give voice to mankind’s doubts, regrets, and fears.
This year, due to the outbreak of the coronavirus, the commemoration ceremony of Hakim Khayyam Neyshabouri will not be held.
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