To my beloved , true love never ends and never is clear..
- banafsheh Ehtemam
- Jan 24, 2020
- 2 min read
One of my most beloved Poet of all time is Omar Khayyam. Perhaps less of a Romantic but more a literal and realist in his Writing style. Truly fascinating, my major affinity to Kayyam's writings and philosophy comes from his multi-layered knowledge and personality.
Khayyam Nīshapuri ( 18 May 1048 – 4 December 1131 ) was a Persian Polymath, Philosopher, Mathematician, Astronomer, and Poet. Born in Nayshapur, at a young age he moved to Samarkand and obtained his education there. Afterward, he moved to Bukhara and became established as one of the major mathematicians and astronomers of the medieval period.
Outside Iran and Persian speaking countries, Khayyam has had an impact on literature and societies through the translation of his works and popularization by other scholars. The most influential of all was Edward Fitzgerald (1809–83), who made Khayyám the most famous poet of the East in the West through his celebrated translation and adaptations of Khayyam's in the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flight
The Stars before him from the Field of Night,
Drives Night along with them from Heav'n, and strikes
The Sultan's Turret with a Shaft of Light.
He compiled astronomical tables and contributed to calendar reform and discovered a geometrical method of solving cubic equations by intersecting a parabola with a circle.
Khayyam wrote the influential Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra (1070), which laid down the principles of algebra, part of the body of Persian Mathematics that was eventually transmitted to Europe. In particular, he derived general methods for solving cubic equations and even some higher orders.
Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring
Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling:
The Bird of Time has but a little way
To flutter--and the Bird is on the Way





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