person
Omar Khayyam
Khayyam
also: Ghiyath al-Din Abu al-Fath Umar ibn Ibrahim al-Khayyam, Omar Khayyam Nishapuri, خیام
The author of the corpus: mathematician, astronomer, and poet of Nishapur (1048–1131). He names himself in the quatrains as Khayyam, 'the tentmaker.'