The author of this book, J.K.M. Shirazi, wrote in the Preface that he or she was Persian, but no other information can be found. As the book was published in the UK and the US in 1905 it is within the Public Domain.
The book is a short but fascinating biography of the Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet Omar Khayyam, and contains several quatrains from his Rubaiyat.
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