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TWENTY YEARS OF OMAR KHAYY'AM CLUB

TWENTY YEARS OF OMAR KHAYY'AM CLUB

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FEATURES: TWENTY YEARS OF OMAR KHAYY'AM CLUB [Book]
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A) CONDITION BOOK: VERY GOOD - HARD BOUND [BUMPED DAMAGED CORNERS]
B) CONDITION DUST JACKET: ABSENT
C) FIRST LIMITED EDITION - ROSEMARY PRESS [PRIVATELY PRINTED] 1921
D) NOTE: VERY RARE. ONE COMPARABLE FOR SALE AT ABE BOOKS, FOR 2,500 USD. 
TOTAL OF 275 COPIES PRINTED. 125 DISTRIBUTED TO LIBRARIES.  105 PAGES.
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Ghiyāth al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīsābūrī[3][4] (18 May 1048 – 4 December 1131), commonly known as Omar Khayyam (Persian: عمر خیّام),[a] was a polymath, known for his contributions to mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, and Persian poetry.[5] He was born in Nishapur, the initial capital of the Seljuk Empire. As a scholar, he was contemporary with the rule of the Seljuk dynasty around the time of the First Crusade.

As a mathematician, he is most notable for his work on the classification and solution of cubic equations, where he provided geometric solutions by the intersection of conics.[6] Khayyam also contributed to the understanding of the parallel axiom.[7]: 284  As an astronomer, he calculated the duration of the solar year with remarkable precision and accuracy, and designed the Jalali calendar, a solar calendar with a very precise 33-year intercalation cycle[8][9]: 659  that provided the basis for the Persian calendar that is still in use after nearly a millennium.

There is a tradition of attributing poetry to Omar Khayyam, written in the form of quatrains (rubāʿiyāt رباعیات). This poetry became widely known to the English-reading world in a translation by Edward FitzGerald (Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, 1859), which enjoyed great success in the Orientalism of the fin de siècle.

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