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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam – FitzGerald

Born on May 18, 1048 in Nishapur, Iran, the Persian mathematician, astronomer and sometime poet, Omar Khayyam, passed away on December 4, 1131.  But not before his work with cubic equations and the composition of a calendar more accurate than … Continue reading

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