Algebra Project

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Mu’nisah Ujima
November 12, 2014
Dr. Sailah Jamar
Algebra Project
Due Date: November 23, 2014

Muslim Contributions to the History of Mathematics

How do Muslims and mathematics go hand in hand? What did Muslims contribute to mathematics? Last but not least how do I think Islam inspire major contributions to the history of mathematics? In my essay you will get a glimpse of Muslims and mathematics through my eyes.
Muslims have made many contributions to almost all branches of the sciences and arts, but mathematics was their favorite subject. The advancement in mathematics during the Caliphate of Omayyads, and Hajjaj bin Yusuf, who were great mathematicians. Whatever mathematical knowledge Arabs had they inherited it from two sources the

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