Omar Khayyam (1048–1131) was a Persian polymath, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet, who is most famously remembered for his poetry, more specifically, 'The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam'. A collection of quatrains (rubaiyat), this work has been admired for its beautiful and thought-provoking content which delves into the existential and often celebrates the joys of living in the present ...