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Hail the Queen of Mathematics! |
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By: Mahbub Gani, Fri 02 September, 2005 |
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In today's world what Friedrich Gauss called the queen of mathematics plays a crucial role in providing internet security. Here we look at some of the Muslims who worked on number theory.
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Leonard of Pisa (Fibonacci) and Arabic Arithmetic |
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By: Professor Charles Burnett, Fri 14 January, 2005 |
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Professor Charles Burnett shows that Fibonacci failed to give adequate recognition to other sources of learning which he took from to produce his Liber Abacci. These other sources were translations of Arabic works from Toledo and Sicily.
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Al-Kindi, Cryptography, Code Breaking and Ciphers |
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By: Tariq Al-Tayeb, B.Sc, M.Sc. (FSTC Limited), Mon 09 June, 2003 |
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Cryptography paved the way for the development of arguably humanity's greatest achievements yet, Computers, the Internet and the digital world. This article presents Al-Kindi as the originator of the modern method of decipher.
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Muslim Founders of Mathematics |
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By: FSTC Limited, Thu 24 April, 2003 |
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The 7th to the 13th century was the golden age of Muslim learning. In mathematics they contributed and invented the present arithmetical decimal system and the fundamental operations connected with it addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, exponentiation, and extracting the root.
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