Via Slashdot
“Medieval Muslims made stunning math breakthrough”
“Reuters reports that medieval Muslims made a mega math marvel. Tile patterns on middle eastern mosques display a kind of quasicrystalline effect that was unknown in the west until rediscovered by Penrose in the 1970s. ‘Quasicrystalline patterns comprise a set of interlocking units whose pattern never repeats, even when extended infinitely in all directions, and possess a special form of symmetry.’ It isn’t known if the mosque designers understood the math behind the patterns or not.”
“Oh, it’s absolutely stunning,” Lu said in an interview. “They made tilings that reflect mathematics that were so sophisticated that we didn’t figure it out until the last 20 or 30 years.”
February 24th, 2007 - 2:27 am
I like how they can’t accept the fact that Muslims were able to transmit complex mathematical patterns into art.
Eurocentricism at its finest.
February 24th, 2007 - 10:29 am
wasSalam Yursil,
returning your salams. Salim grabbed by my shoulder and “…Yursil sent you his salam”.
working as a chaplain, we started classes last week. Audio is online and video is coming…inshAllah.
http://omcru.blogspot.com
http://liberalartsforum.blogspot.com
take care,
wasSalam,
faraz
February 25th, 2007 - 7:24 pm
Uh… isn’t it the Persian Muslims of the 9th century who developed advanced forms of algebra (al-jebr)? Do you think that they were ignorant of the mathmatical formula of the geometric design? I don’t I think they probably knew full well its properties. But, that is only my guess.