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The medieval Arab-Islamic world played a crucial role in shaping the trajectory of mathematics, with al-Khwārizmī's algebraic innovations serving as a cornerstone. The dissemination of Arabic mathematics to the West during the Islamic Golden Age , facilitated by cultural exchanges and translations, left a lasting impact on Western ...
In the history of mathematics, Arabic mathematics or Islamic mathematics refers to the mathematics developed by the Islamic civilization between 622 and 1600.While most scientists in this period were Muslims and Arabic was the dominant language, contributions were made by people of many religions (Muslims as well as Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians) and ethnicities (Arabs as well as Persian ...
Works by mathematicians who lived under the rule of Islam during the Middle Ages, irrespective of their religion, ethnicity or language. Pages in category "Mathematical works of the medieval Islamic world"
The Tusi couple, a mathematical device invented by the Persian polymath Nasir al-Din Tusi to model the not perfectly circular motions of the planets. Science in the medieval Islamic world was the science developed and practised during the Islamic Golden Age under the Abbasid Caliphate of Baghdad, the Umayyads of Córdoba, the Abbadids of Seville, the Samanids, the Ziyarids and the Buyids in ...
kikA Christian and a Muslim playing chess, illustration from the Book of Games of Alfonso X (c. 1285). [1]During the High Middle Ages, the Islamic world was an important contributor to the global cultural scene, innovating and supplying information and ideas to Europe, via Al-Andalus, Sicily and the Crusader kingdoms in the Levant.
Mathematicians who lived under the rule of Islam during the Middle Ages, irrespective of their religion, ethnicity or language. Subcategories This category has the following 12 subcategories, out of 12 total.
Tusi is widely regarded as one of the greatest scientists of medieval Islam, [7] since he is often considered the creator of trigonometry as a mathematical discipline in its own right. [8] [9] [10] The Muslim scholar Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406) considered Tusi to be the greatest of the later Persian scholars. [11]
Among historians, his most widely studied work is his algebra book al-fakhri fi al-jabr wa al-muqabala, which survives from the medieval era in at least four copies. [6] He expounded the basic principles of hydrology [7] and this book reveals his profound knowledge of this science and has been described as the oldest extant text in this field.