ساقی غم فردای حریفان چه خوریCupbearer, why grieve for tomorrow?
پیش آر پیاله را که شب میگذردBring the cup. The night is passing.
Omar Khayyam, a rubāʿī
The man
Astronomer, mathematician, poet
Khayyam measured the length of the year with remarkable precision and wrote quatrains about seizing the moment. The house carries his name and his advice.
- 1048
- Born in Nishapur, Persia
- 1070
- Solves cubic equations with conic sections
- 1079
- His Jalali calendar is adopted