Google Doodle Celebrates Omar Khayyam On 971th Birth Anniversary
Google Doodle Celebrates Omar Khayyam, The Prolific Mathematician, Poet, Philosopher And Astronomer From Persia In India, Russia, the Middle East, North African nations, the US and Chile. Born on May 18, 1048, in northeastern Iran’s Nishapur, Omar Khayyam is notable for several mathematical and scientific discoveries. He spent most of his life near the court of the Karakhanid and Seljuq rulers in the period which witnessed the First Crusade . He was the first to create a general method for solving cubic equations, where he provided geometric solutions by the intersection of conics. The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Omar Khayyam was famous for his poetry and verses. He wrote more than a thousand ‘Rubaiyat’ or verses. ‘Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám’, a section of work translated by Edward Fitzgerald, became popular in the West centuries after his death. His poems made him extremely famous, unfortunately posthumously. Omar was famous during his lifetime not as a poet but as