Medieval Islamic World: The Golden Age of Math
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What event marked the start of scientific progress in the Islamic World?

  • The establishment of the House of Wisdom
  • The translation of Greek and Indian books into Arabic
  • The synthesis of Greek, Indian, and Mesopotamian influences in mathematics
  • 750 AD (correct)

    • What was the name of the large library established by the Abbasid Caliphs?

  • House of Wisdom (correct)
  • The Islamic Archive
  • Library of Alexandria
  • The Great Library of Baghdad

    • How many mathematicians from this era had their work survive until today?

  • Nearly 30
  • Nearly 20
  • Nearly 40
  • Nearly 50 (correct)

    • What was the nationality of Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi?

    <p>Persian</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What were the four subjects on which Al-Khwarizmi wrote books?

    <p>Geography, Astronomy, Arithmetic, and Algebra</p> Signup and view all the answers

    When did Al-Khwarizmi become a librarian at the House of Wisdom?

    <p>After 810 AD</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which mathematician is credited with introducing the decimal positional number system to the Western world?

    <p>Al-Khwarizmi</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In which year did zero start being used in India?

    <p>876 AD</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who commissioned Omar Khayyam to set up an observatory in Isfahan?

    <p>Malik-Shah</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What type of calendar did Omar Khayyam design?

    <p>Solar calendar</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Where was Omar Khayyam born?

    <p>Neyshabur, Persia</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was Al-Khwarizmi's book on arithmetic originally written in?

    <p>Arabic</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the significance of Nasir al-Din al-Tusi's work in trigonometry?

    <p>It became an independent area of mathematics</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the name of the book written by Nasir al-Din al-Tusi that contains astronomical tables of planetary movements?

    <p>Zij-i Ilkhani</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was the title of Al-Khwarizmi's famous book that was translated into Latin in 1440?

    <p>The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Where was Jamshid al-Kashi born in 1380?

    <p>Kashan, in central Iran</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the method used by al-Tusi to analyze cubic equations?

    <p>Discriminant, D, of polynomial</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the period during which Al-Khwarizmi's book was used as a textbook?

    <p>1500-1600</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the name of the method presented by Al-Khwarizmi for solving linear and quadratic equations?

    <p>The Algorithmic Approach</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who founded an institute in Samarkand that became a prominent university?

    <p>Ulugh Beg</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was the name of the Zij produced by Jamshid al-Kashi?

    <p>Khaqani Zij</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the title of the course taught by Deniz Karlı?

    <p>History of Mathematics</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the origin of the word 'Algebra'?

    <p>From the title of Al-Khwarizmi's book</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How many entries were there in the table of sinus values calculated by Al-Kashi?

    <p>5400</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Up to how many decimal places did Al-Kashi calculate the number π?

    <p>16th decimal</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How many classes of quadratic equations did Al-Khwarizmi classify and provide solutions for?

    <p>6</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the name of the student of Sharaf al-Din al-Tusi who became a famous mathematician?

    <p>Nasir al-Din al-Tusi</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the name of the university that published the course 'History of Mathematics: The Golden Age of Islamic World & The Renaissance and Classical Era in Europe'?

    <p>Işik University</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How many years did Al-Kashi's record of calculating π stand before being broken?

    <p>200 years</p> Signup and view all the answers

    When was the concept of derivative properly defined?

    <p>400 years after al-Tusi's time</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who computed the length of a year as 365.24219858156 years based on observation and measurement?

    <p>Omar Khayyam</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What type of approach did Omar Khayyam use to find the roots of 3rd degree polynomials?

    <p>Geometric approach using conic sections</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How many types of equations of degree at most two did Al-Tusi divide into?

    <p>12 types</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Where did Sharaf al-Din al-Tusi teach mathematics?

    <p>Damascus, Aleppo, Baghdad, and Mosul</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is credited to Sharaf al-Din al-Tusi?

    <p>Proposing the idea of a function</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What type of polynomials did Omar Khayyam classify and find their roots?

    <p>3rd degree polynomials</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How many different types of equations of degree at most three did Al-Tusi divide into?

    <p>25 types</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who observed that a cubic polynomial may have more than one root?

    <p>Omar Khayyam</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Where was Sharaf al-Din al-Tusi born?

    <p>Tus, Iran</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the current approximate value of 1 year?

    <p>365.242190 years</p> Signup and view all the answers

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