Omar Khayyam

Today's Google Doodle celebrates the birth anniversary of Persian mathematician, astronomer and poet Omar Khayyam. The Iran-born mathematician was known for his work on the classification and solution of cubic equations.

It's been a bad few days for Narendra Modi and Amit Shah. Fortunately, one has a 56-inch chest and the other ample shoulder-space for each to lean on the other and cry. But, alas for them, Omar Khayyam's "Moving Finger" has written - and not all their "tears can wash out a word of it". So, while the nation waits with increasing skepticism for their...

Today's Google Doodle celebrates the birth anniversary of Persian mathematician, astronomer and poet Omar Khayyam. The Iran-born mathematician was known for his work on the classification and solution of cubic equations.

It's been a bad few days for Narendra Modi and Amit Shah. Fortunately, one has a 56-inch chest and the other ample shoulder-space for each to lean on the other and cry. But, alas for them, Omar Khayyam's "Moving Finger" has written - and not all their "tears can wash out a word of it". So, while the nation waits with increasing skepticism for their...