Omar Khayyam Image source: Adelaide Hanscom Omar Khayyám was an 11th-century Persian mathematician, philosopher and poet who studied algebra and wrote the Rubáiyát. Quotes by Omar Khayyam in Time OneThe Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on....With Earth’s first Clay They did the Last Man knead, And there of the Last Harvest sow’d the Seed: And the first Morning of Creation wrote What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read. More about Omar Khayyam Wikipedia About Omar Khayyam The Rubaiyat Ken Kesey Tao Kiang