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Omar Khayyám

Author · Musician 1048–1131

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About Omar Khayyám

Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)

Ideas represented

Beauty Death Hope Knowledge Learning Memory Nature Philosophy Science

In their words

“My tomb shall be in a certain place where each breath of the north wind shall shower down roses upon it.”

“And the part of philosophy known as mathematics is the easiest of its parts to grasp both as to conception and as to assent.”