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Math and Astronomy in The Golden Age of Islam - Coggle Diagram
Math and Astronomy in The Golden Age of Islam
Math
Well-known Arab mathematicians
Al-Battani
How each of them advanced math
Al-Battani was an astronomer and a mathematician. Known as the "Ptolemy of the Arabs", he contributed greatly to algebra, as he created many crucial formulas we still use today. He also measured that a single year is 365 days, 46 minutes and 24 seconds, which was surprisingly only 2 minutes and 22 seconds off of the actual amount.
Sheikh Baha'i was a mathematician and astronomer. He wrote over 100 books in Arabic and Persian about engineering and architechture. He also was one of the first people who believed that the Earth goes around the Sun.
Al-Kindi adapted, spread and popularized the Hindi numerical system, which then was incorporated into Islamic and Christian culture.
Sheikh Baha'i
Al-Kindi
History
Nasir Al-Din Al-Tusi creates Spherical Trigonometry (13th century)
The Baghdad House of Wisdom is created (~810 c.e.)
Al-Karaji creates the Binominal Theorem (9th century)
Astronomy
History
The first observatory is built in the 8th century.
Abd Al-Rahman Al-Sufi publishes The Book of Fixed Stars in 964.
Nasir Al-Din Al-Tusi creates the Tusi couple.
Well-known Arab astronomists
Jabir Bin Aflah
How each of them contributed to science
Al-Battani was an astronomer and a mathematician. Known as the "Ptolemy of the Arabs", he contributed greatly to algebra, as he created many crucial formulas we still use today. He also measured that a single year is 365 days, 46 minutes and 24 seconds, which was surprisingly only 2 minutes and 22 seconds off of the actual amount.
Thabit was an astronomer, known for fixing errors in the information found in widely-used (at the time) books about astronomy, such as Euclid's Elements.
Jabir was an astronomer and mathematician. He managed to create a tool that could translate values from specific sources into horizon, equitorial and ecliptic values. This was, in a way, a computer.
Al-Battani
Thabit Ibn Qurrah