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Taqi al Din Ibn Ma’ruf 's Work on Extracting the Cord 2o and Sin 1o |
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By: FSTC Limited, Fri 30 May, 2008 |
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This article by Professor Sevim Tekeli, a leading historian of science in the Ottoman period, deals with an aspect of the work of Taqi al-Din Ibn Ma'ruf in trigonometry, a mathematical discipline which studies the relationships between the sides and the angles of triangles and the trigonometric functions which describe those relationships. Approaching Taqi al-Din's work through modern methods of notation, his mathematical method in extracting the cord 2o and Sin 1o is fully disclosed. The author shows the originality of Ibn Ma'ruf's discovery and states how it constituted a progress with regard to his predecessors, in Greek and Islamic mathematics.
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Al-Karaji (d. 910 to 929) |
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By: FSTC Limited, Mon 16 July, 2007 |
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Al-Karaji (d. 910 to 929) Abu Bakr ibn Hussein was born in Kharkh, a suburb of Baghdad. His works covered arithmetic, algebra and geometry.
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Al-Hassâr's Kitâb al-Bayân and the Transmission of the Hindu-Arabic Numerals |
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By: Prof. Paul Kunitzsch, Mon 04 June, 2007 |
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This article was a talk given at the 7th Maghrebi Colloque of the History of Arabic Mathematics held from 30 May to 1 June 2002 in Marrakech, Morocco. It presents a new manuscript of the mathematical work Kitâb al-Bayân by the Moroccan mathematician of the 12th centrury Al-Hassâr, together with related remarks on the transmission of the Hindu-Arabic numerals to the medieval West.
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Sine, Cosine and the Measurement of the Earth |
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By: FSTC Limited, Fri 02 February, 2007 |
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Mathematics has long been an area of expertise amongst Muslim mathematicians. This article considers the contributions of Al-Tusi and Al-Battani and others in trigonometry, focusing upon the progress their discoveries represented in comparison with the ancient tradition as displayed in Ptolemy's Almagest.
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Mathematics in Muslim Heritage |
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By: FSTC Limited, Tue 30 January, 2007 |
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Early mathematics was revolutionised by Muslim scholars like Al-Khwarizmi, the founder of Algebra; Al-Kindi, Al-Khazin, Al-Khujandi,Al-Sijzi, Abul Wafa and numerous others.This article reviews some of the important works of these mathematicians.
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The Science of Restoring and Balancing – The Science of Algebra |
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By: Mahbub Ghani, Fri 05 January, 2007 |
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Muslim contributions in the field of mathematics have been both varied and far reaching. This article by Mahbub Ghani (from the Department of Electronic Engineering at King's College, London University) considers some Muslim contributions in algebra, focussing in particular on the contributions of scholars such as Al-Khwarizmi, Ibn Qurra, Al-Karaji and Al-Samaw'al.
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Contribution of Al-Khwarizmi to Mathematics and Geography |
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By: FSTC Limitied, Wed 27 December, 2006 |
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Muhammad ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi is one of the greatest scientific minds of the medieval period and a most important Muslim mathematician who was justly called the 'father of algebra'. Besides his founding the science of jabr, he made major contributions in astronomy and mathematical geography. In this article, focus is laid on his mathematical work in the field of algebra and his contribution in setting the foundation of the Islamic tradition of mathematical geography and cartography.
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Al-Khwarizmi, Abdu’l-Hamid Ibn Turk and the Place of Central Asia in the History of Science |
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By: FTSC Limited, Tue 12 December, 2006 |
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Abu Ja`far Muhammad ibn Mûsâ al-Khwârazmî is a truly outstanding personality and a foremost representative of the supremacy of the Islamic World during the Middle Ages. Medieval Islam was largely responsible for the shaping of the canon of knowledge that dominated medieval European thought.
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Numbers, Numbers |
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By: FSTC Limited, Wed 14 September, 2005 |
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Amicable number, perfect numbers, deficient numbers, abundant numbers, studying numbers was done by many including Ibn Sina better known for work in medicine.
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Decimal Arithmetic |
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By: FSTC Limited, Thu 08 September, 2005 |
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The introduction of Arabic numbers into Europe involved more than a way of writing numbers down. It also involved new ways of calculating with pen and paper that were faster and easier and the system of decimal fractions which allowed a simple way of ever more accurate calculations essential for the progress of science.
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