In Our Time

Maths in the Early Islamic World

Feb 16, 2017
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
The History of the Babylonian Empire
02:12 • 2min
3
The Indian Contribution to Astronomy
04:34 • 2min
4
The Golden Age - A Great Cross Fermentation of Ideas
06:28 • 2min
5
The House of Wisdom
08:06 • 2min
6
The House of Wisdom
10:00 • 2min
7
Euclid's Elements
11:42 • 2min
8
What Is the Impact of Euclid's Elements on the Arabs?
13:26 • 2min
9
Algebra and Geometry in the Early Ars
15:15 • 2min
10
Algebra Is Not All About Symbols
16:55 • 2min
11
Alquarisme, the Father of Algebra
19:00 • 2min
12
The Greek Soft Problems, the Arabs, Solved Equations
20:40 • 2min
13
Algorithms
22:31 • 2min
14
How Did the Modern Number System Develop in the Middle East?
24:44 • 2min
15
The Decimal System
26:17 • 2min
16
What Is the Difference Between Decimal and Decimal Fractions
27:50 • 2min
17
What Ifat the Consequence of That Was That Knowledge Spread So Slowly?
29:48 • 2min
18
The Greatest Mathematician, Oma Kam
31:44 • 2min
19
What Did the Arab World Give Us?
33:18 • 2min
20
Did Leonord Give Us a Continuous Line in Numbering?
34:54 • 2min
21
The Great Ascension of Latin in the Golden Age
37:04 • 2min
22
What's Going on in the Arab Speaking Well?
39:08 • 2min
23
What Was the Chiaf Legacy of This Four or 500 Years?
40:41 • 2min
24
The Development Beyond What the Greeks Did
42:18 • 2min
25
Theoretically, the Absence of Evidence Isn't the Evidence of Absence, but Symbolically.
43:52 • 2min
26
What We Didn't Get Into Is Education
45:29 • 2min
27
The Greeks and the Renaissance
47:19 • 3min