(June 9, 2011 at 3:30 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:(June 9, 2011 at 6:49 am)Zenith Wrote: the funny thing about Islam & science is that no islamic thing has ever been useful for scientific development.
Not true.
Quote:Islamic mathematicians fully developed the decimal place-value number system to include decimal fractions, systematised the study of algebra and began to consider the relationship between algebra and geometry, studied and made advances on the major Greek geometrical treatises of Euclid, Archimedes, and Apollonius, and made significant improvements in plane and spherical geometry
That which you say was not islamic - it was only human. As I was speaking about the qur'an, I was speaking about Islamic stuff, not greek and human knowledge. Perhaps I was not clear enough: The Qur'an was never useful for the scientific development (as the muslims claim that all kind of modern scientific things are written in the qur'an), i.e. the qur'an did not help scientific development at all.
The muslims have used the ancient greek knowledge as a base, and they developed on it.
As about the arabic digits, it was not the muslims' invention. Read this.
