How important were muslim contributions to mathematics? Are they overemphasized due to politics?
How important were muslim contributions to mathematics? Are they overemphasized due to politics?
Joseph Cook
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Jordan Williams
they weren't allowed to paint graven images, so all of their art is mathematical in nature. some of the mosques are extraordinary
Hunter Morris
They are underrated. Extremely important.
Aiden Smith
>How important were muslim contributions to mathematics?
Depends how much you consider algebra and the preservation of a lot of European mathematics important.
Connor Jenkins
Most significant Muslim contributions came from other countries and pre-Islam.
Nolan Nguyen
Isn't the word Algebra derived from the Arabic word 'al-jabr' or something?
Don't really know - probably a maths historian could tell you how the Arabic maths propagated through time and space; whether it was at the beginning and spread, or whether it merely evolved alongside.
Adrian Hernandez
Arabic is an inarguably ugly language.
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Brayden Jackson
Algebra is derived from an Arabic word, but they didn't invent it. The basics of algebra were known to Greek mathematicians 2000 years before Islam was even a religion. The Ottoman Empire took stuff from every nation that it conquered, tweaked it, improved upon it, and then spread it all over the world. The math that they got from Greece was just one of these things. They didn't invent Algebra, they just made it popular.
Eli Hernandez
retard
Nolan Perry
The biggest contributors were Zoroastrians living as Dhimi (second class citizens) if they weren'tforced to convert.
Most notably al-Khwārizmī:
en.wikipedia.org
>Another epithet given to him by al-Ṭabarī, "al-Majūsī," would seem to indicate that he was an adherent of the old Zoroastrian religion. This would still have been possible at that time for a man of Iranian origin, but the pious preface to al-Khwārizmī's Algebra shows that he was an orthodox Muslim, so al-Ṭabarī's epithet could mean no more than that his forebears, and perhaps he in his youth, had been Zoroastrians.[12]
Living as a Dhimi he would obviously pay respect to Islam which can be misconstrued as him being pious. It's also important to note that cultures and religions love to hijack the work of individuals as their own.
Wyatt Price
Much of what the muslims talked about in math came from Indian and Greek and Chinese civilization.
Julian Hall
Ibn Haytham is arguably the greatest Islamic scientist and he's not Persian.
Isaiah Johnson
No Chinese.
As for the rest, no shit you retard. That's what all civilizations do. But the important thing is that they built on that pas knowledge, which they did greatly.
Justin Gomez
It's more under than overrated.
Isaac Robinson
>A lot of benefits can be gained by managers, employees, academics and students by having the Islamic Personality Model.
bait
Isaac Wilson
>being this ignorant
Just leave
Aaron Wright
Greek intellectuals hated their proto algebra, they thought it was only suited for merchants and tax collectors who couldn't understand geometry.
Ayden Perry
Ottoman empire had nothing to do with the development of algebra you nigger.
Why even bring them up?
Cooper Edwards
I'm sure it was important fundamentally. But 99% of modern mathematics was from the last 300-400 years.
Xavier Reed
They were extremely important in a few ways:
1) They preserved Greek mathematics when Europe became a shit hole during the middle ages. If it weren't for this, the works would have been lost.
>The Romans were too practical-minded to appreciate Euclid; the first of them to mention him is Cicero, in whose time there was probably no Latin translation; indeed there is no record of any Latin translation before Boethius (ca. A.D. 480).
>The Arabs were more appreciative: a copy was given to the caliph by the Byzantine emperor about A.D. 760, and a translation into Arabic was made under Harun al Rashid, about A.D. 800. The first still extant Latin translation was made from the Arabic by Athelhard of Bath in A.D. 1120. From that time on, the study of geometry gradually revived in the West; but it was not until the late Renaissance that important advances were made.
>History of Western Philosophy, Russel
2) The decimal system is partially Arabic. Specifically, it was developed in India around 500 AD, traveled to the Arab world, before being brought to Europe by Fibonacci around 1200.
3) The origin of the word Algebra is from al-Khwarizmi's book Al-Jabr (al-Khwarizmi happens to be the origin of the word algorithm as well). The greek mathematician Diophantus also deserves some credit for developing algebraic methods, but Al-Jabr was more influential on Europe when the middle ages first began to end, as Islamic texts were more readily available.