MATHS

Mathematics and Islam.

http://www.google.es/imgres?imgurl=http://www.muslimheritage.com/uploads/Al_Khwarizmi_Invento r_of_Algebra_Corona_Brezina_Fig_6.JPG&imgrefurl=http:// Modern mathematics owes much of its existence to Islam. Islamic mathematicians of the middle ages developed many of the fundamental cornerstones of modern mathematics. The word algebra comes from the Arabic al-jabr, "restoration". The field of algebra was developed by Muslim mathematicians in the Middle East and India. Algorithms, the processes of mathematics and computer science, are named after the great Arabic mathematician al-Khwarizmi. The Prophet Mohammed enjoined Muslims to learn. The enlightened cultural traditions of Islam ensured that the mathematical works of previous cultures, such as the ancient Greeks, were preserved rather than destroyed. Euclid's geometry is only known to us because it was preserved in Arabic by Muslim scholars. Our modern number system is called Hindu-Arabic in recognition of its origins in the number systems of India and Arabia. Our number system depends fundamentally on the number 0 (zero) which was invented by Arab mathematicians. A numeral is sometimes called a cipher from the Arabic word sifr meaning zero. Activities: Answer the following questions: 1. Who developed the modern mathematics? 2. Who developed algebra? 3. Who was al-Khwarizmi? What did he do? 4. Is it good according to the prophet to learn? 5. Did the Arabs learn from other cultures? 6. Who invented the number zero?

Mara Caballero

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