Mathematical Patterns within Mosque Facades
Here's the article on NPR.org:
"All Things Considered, February 22, 2007 ยท Historic buildings in the Islamic world are often covered with breathtakingly intricate geometric designs. Both artists and mathematicians have long puzzled over them, wondering how the patterns were created.
Now, a Harvard physicist has some new ideas about the designs and the advanced math behind them."
posted by Eris @ 5:21 PM
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It's pretty well known that Islamic scholars and librarians maintained the classical Greek knowledge that was lost in Europe after the Germanic overthrow of the Roman Empire. The Renaissance might not have happened without that Islamic scholarship.
But I think it's sometimes less well known that Islamic scientists themselves made some pretty significant advances in math, medicine, astronomy, and engineering during the Middle Ages.
It's funny you should post about this today, I was checking out some Islamic art at the V&A today. TimmyD is right, the Islamic world made major advances in maths, medicine and astronomy - not to mention my personal favourite, advances in typography.
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