Archive for March 10th, 2007
Newsweek: Islam Got It First!
0 Comments Published by Haseeb March 10th, 2007 in Uncategorized, Current NewsSource: Newsweek
In stretches of intricate tiling on several 500-year-old Islamic buildings, Peter Lu and Paul Steinhardt wrote, they’d spotted a large fragment of a mathematical pattern that was unknown to Western science until the 1970s. Islam gave the world algebra, from the Arabic al-jabr, a term referring to a basic equation. But this pattern is […]
