DAR AL ISLAM: MOSLEMS MADE A STUNNING MATHEMATICAL BREAKTHROUGH AND YET THEY STILL LIVE IN THE 7TH CENTURY AD

Medieval Muslims made stunning math breakthrough

Feb 22, 2007 — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Magnificently sophisticated geometric patterns in medieval Islamic architecture indicate their designers achieved a mathematical breakthrough 500 years earlier than Western scholars, scientists said on Thursday.

By the 15th century, decorative tile patterns on these masterpieces of Islamic architecture reached such complexity that a small number boasted what seem to be "quasicrystalline" designs, Harvard University's Peter Lu and Princeton University's Paul Steinhardt wrote in the journal Science.

Only in the 1970s did British mathematician and cosmologist Roger Penrose become the first to describe these geometric designs in the West. 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.

"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."
Lu and Steinhardt in particular cite designs on the Darb-i Imam shrine in Isfahan, Iran, built in 1453.

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See what a $20 million donation will buy you at Harvard?!?

If the Saudis continue donating $$$, at the same rate they are donating now, in about 5 yrs time they are going to have enough "American Intelligenstia" in their pockets to rewrite history and proclaim that it was moslems that invented the computer and landed man on the moon...

Also, that it was Ali Babba of the 40 Thieves that discovered America...

And since moslems had this HUMONGOUS MATHEMATICAL BREAKTHROUGH, can someone please tell me what they did with it?!?

The extent of their mathematical breakthrough was to put pretty patterns on the walls of mosques and madrassas...


WOOOOOHHHPPPPTTTEEEEEEEDOOOOOOOO ! ! !

Let us all be good dhimmis, drop to our knees and kiss their stinky feet...


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