Great Thinkers, Great Theorems

Al-Khwarizmi and Islamic Mathematics (1x9)

Uitzenddatum: Jan 01, 2010

With the decline of classical civilization in the West, the focus of mathematical activity shifted to the Islamic world. Investigate the proofs of the mathematician whose name gives us our term "algorithm": al-Khwarizmi. His great book on equation solving also led to the term "algebra."