# Omar Khayyam

> He solved cubic equations centuries before Descartes got credit, built a calendar so precise it's still running a thousand years later, and somehow became most famous in the West for wine-soaked quatrains he may or may not have written.

*Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/omar-khayyam

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Born:** 1048-05-18
- **Died:** 1131-12-04
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Omar Khayyam was born in 1048 in Nishapur, Iran, during the Seljuk era and the time of the First Crusade. As a mathematician, he cracked the general solution for third-degree polynomials using intersecting conic sections—work that would later be attributed to Descartes, though Khayyam's geometric method adhered strictly to the rule of homogeneity. He also probed the foundations of Euclid's parallel axiom, describing what's now called the Khayyam-Saccheri quadrilateral in his 11th-century treatise on Euclid's postulates. In astronomy, he calculated the solar year with startling precision and designed the Jalali calendar, a solar system with a 33-year intercalation cycle that became the basis for the Persian calendar still in use today. A tradition grew of attributing Persian quatrains to him, poetry that reached English readers through Edward FitzGerald's 1859 translation, which rode the wave of fin de siècle Orientalism to unlikely fame.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 79.5 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.8 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 26.0 / 100
- **Now attention:** 13.4 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 65.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 65.0 / 100
- **Category rank:** #52

## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1024630/ (@nm1024630)

## Topics
#Scientists, #Academic, #Mathematics, #Astronomy, #Poetry, #Philosophy, #Music, #Literature

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- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35900)
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Khayyam)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Omar%20Khayyam)
- [Амар Хаям](https://be_x_old.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80_%D0%A5%D0%B0%D1%8F%D0%BC)
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- [Омар Хаям](https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80_%D0%A5%D0%B0%D1%8F%D0%BC)
- [ওমর খৈয়াম](https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%93%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%B0_%E0%A6%96%E0%A7%88%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AE)
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- [Omar C'hayyam](https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_C'hayyam)
- [Omar Hajjam](https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Hajjam)
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- [Omar Chajjám](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Chajj%C3%A1m)
- [Омар Хайям](https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80_%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%8F%D0%BC)
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- [Wikiquote](https://az.wikiquote.org/wiki/%C3%96m%C9%99r_X%C9%99yyam)
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