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	Podcast:		Toranj
	Episode:		Toranj-17-05-2017-Omar Khayyam, Persian astronomer, Mathematician, and Poet
	Category:		Society & Culture
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	Publish Date:		2017-05-17 02:00:00
	Description:		This week's program is about "Omar Khayyam", the Persian astronomer, mathematician, and poet. Omar Khayyam (1048-ca. 1132) made important contributions to mathematics, but his chief claim to fame, at least in the last 100 years, has been as the author of a collection of quatrains, the "Rubaiyat." Omar Khayyam was born in Nishapur in May 1048. His father, Ibrahim, may have been a tentmaker (Khayyam means tentmaker). Omar obtained a thorough education in philosophy and mathematics, and at an early age he attained great fame in the latter field. The Seljuk sultan Jalal-al-Din Malik Shah invited him to collaborate in devising a new calendar, the Jalali or Maliki. Omar spent much of his life teaching philosophy and mathematics, and legends ascribe to him some proficiency in medicine. He died in Nishapur.
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