Riyadh Seminar Call for Advances in Astronomy

Muniza Ali, Special to Arab News

RIYADH, 16 October 2003 — The contribution of early Muslim scholars to the development of mathematics and astronomy is impressive: In the 9th century, Muhammad Al-Khuwarizmi wrote the first book on algebra as well as a treatise on arithmetic that introduced Arabic numerals to the West. His contemporary Thabit ibn Qurrah helped lay the founding principles of integral calculus, while another group of mathematicians, including Abu Ali ibn Al-Haytham and Muhammad ibn Jabir Al-Battani, went on to develop spherical astronomy.




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Now here's some good news from the Middle East.

It makes the Arabs almost....human.