In the history of mathematics, mathematics in medieval Islam, sometimes termed Islamic mathematics, is the mathematics developed in the Islamic world between 622 and 1600, during what is known as the Islamic Golden Age, in that part of the world where Islam was the dominant religion. Islamic science and mathematics flourished under the Islamic caliphate (also known as the Islamic Empire) established across the Middle East, Central Asia, North Africa, Sicily, the Iberian Peninsula, and in parts of France and the Indian subcontinent in the 8th century. The main centres of mathematical activity were in Iraq, Persia and Egypt, but at its greatest extent stretched from North Africa and Spain in the west to India in the east.[1]
While most scientists in this period were Muslims and wrote in Arabic, many of the best known contributors were Persians[2][3] as well as Arabs, Berbers, Moors, Turks, and sometimes non-Muslims (Christian, Jewish, Sabian, Zoroastrian and irreligious).[4] Arabic was the dominant language—much like Latin in Medieval Europe, Arabic was the written lingua franca of most scholars throughout the Islamic world.
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Ethan
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:56:28 GM
He explains that Fibonnaci's father sent him to a Muslim family to learn his . math. - he would have learned double-entry bookkeeping, an innovation that hadn't yet reached the North. When European monestaries might hold a couple of dozen ...
