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Trade routes and cultural interactions played a crucial role in introducing Arabic mathematical ideas to the West. The translation of Arabic mathematical texts, along with Greek and Roman works, during the 14th to 17th century, played a pivotal role in shaping the intellectual landscape of the Renaissance.
A Christian and a Muslim playing chess, illustration from the Book of Games of Alfonso X (c. 1285). [1]During the High Middle Ages, the Islamic world was an important contributor to the global cultural scene, innovating and supplying information and ideas to Europe, via Al-Andalus, Sicily and the Crusader kingdoms in the Levant.
Some of the more well-known topics in recreational mathematics are Rubik's Cubes, magic squares, fractals, logic puzzles and mathematical chess problems, but this area of mathematics includes the aesthetics and culture of mathematics, peculiar or amusing stories and coincidences about mathematics, and the personal lives of mathematicians.
Pages in category "Mathematical works of the medieval Islamic world" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Alquerque (also known as al-qirkat from Arabic: القرقات) is a strategy board game that is thought to have originated in the Middle East.It is considered to be the parent of draughts (US: checkers) and Fanorona and the diagonals of its grid are the predecessor of the checkering of the draughts board.
In the history of mathematics, Arabic mathematics or Islamic mathematics refers to the mathematics developed by the Islamic civilization between 622 and 1600.While most scientists in this period were Muslims and Arabic was the dominant language, contributions were made by people of many religions (Muslims as well as Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians) and ethnicities (Arabs as well as Persian ...
Archimedes gave a neusis construction of the regular heptagon, which was interpreted by medieval Arabic commentators, Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, and others as being based on a solid construction, but this has been disputed, as other interpretations are possible. [17] The quadrature of the circle does not have a solid construction.
A century later at Toledo, the Arabic-to-Latin translator Gerard of Cremona (1114–1187) translated for Latin readers the Tables of Toledo, the most accurate compilation in Europe at the time. This collection of tables was influenced heavily by the work of earlier astronomers and tables such as that of Ptolematic tables and the work of al ...