The History and Achievements of the Islamic Golden Age

Algebra, Algorithms, and al-Khwarizmi (1x5)

Air date: Oct 01, 2016

The field of mathematics owes a tremendous debt to the Islamic Golden Age. Mathematicians such as Omar Khayyam (who is perhaps better known today as a poet) and al-Khwarizmi built on the work of Babylonian, Greek, and Indian mathematicians to systematize and explain algebra and symbolic algorithms. Survey this critical period of mathematics history.