This paper offers a glimpse of the major contributions made by Arabs to mathematics in middle ages history period. Its purpose is to stimulate interest in an object based on mutual respect and understanding. We give a short list of the most popular Arabic mathematicians and we comment some of their studies for using them...Read More

When the history of science in prehistoric or Bronze Age societies is described, what one finds is normally a description of technologies and of that sort of inherent practical knowledge which these technologies presuppose. This state of our art reflects perfectly well the state of the arts in these societies: They present us with no...Read More

Establishing in Baghdad, a recently founded capital of Abbasid caliphs, of دار الحکمه Daru l-Hikmat (Abode of Wisdom) by caliph Ma’mun who ruled during 813-833, was destined to play a pivotal role in the development of Mathematics in the lands conquered by muslim armies. Abode of Wisdom was a sort of translation academy patronized by...Read More

Islamic mathematical achievements were many as here outlined by Sabra. Islamic scholars devised and successfully applied new and elaborate techniques of computations; they constructed sophisticated mechanical computers; devised methods for calculating with decimal fractions; took significant steps toward extending the concept of number inherited from the Greeks, so as to include irrational magnitudes as well...Read More