Place

Nishapur

Khorasan · Modern Iran

A jewel of medieval Persia and one of its great centers of learning, birthplace of Omar Khayyam, mathematician, astronomer, and poet of doubt.

Thinkers Connected to Nishapur

Omar Khayyam

1048 CE – 1131 CE

Mathematician by day, poet of doubt by night. He solved cubic equations and asked what any of it was for.

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