Omar Khayyam
Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet whose Rubaiyat quatrains, celebrating wine, roses, and present-moment pleasure in the face of mortality, became globally famous through Edward FitzGerald's Victorian translation.
Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet whose Rubaiyat quatrains, celebrating wine, roses, and present-moment pleasure in the face of mortality, became globally famous through Edward FitzGerald's Victorian translation.