Golden Age Of Muslim Learning Essay

Golden age of Muslim learning was on 7th to the 13th century. A lot of muslim scholars had contributed many aspects of knowledge, which one of them is mathematics. They contributed and invented the present arithmetical decimal system and the fundamental operations connected with it such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, exponentiation and extraction of the root. There are many scholars had contributed in this field such as Al-Khwarizmi, Al-Kindi, Al-Battani and Al-Biruni.

Muhammad Ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi, as known as the father of algebra. He was born around 780 CE and was one of a great scholar that had contributed in mathematics. In the early 9th Century, he was one of the 1st Directors of the House of Wisdom in Baghdad.

One of the great scientists that set the stage for the brilliant Islamic tradition of learning. His works in philosophy, mathematics, optics, cosmology, music, cryptology and medicine had a huge influence on later centuries. He worked with a group of translators who rendered works of Aristotle, the Neoplatonis, and Greek mathematicians and scientists into Arabic. He gained insights into the thought of Greek philosophers, especially Aristotle, through the translation movement. Even though he did not make the translations himself, he corrected them and used them advantageously in his own

In his work, Al-Kindi described the first philosophy, which is the highest and noblest philosophy as the knowledge of the first truth, includes the cause of every truth or simply the first cause. The cause of time influenced the first cause to be prior in time itself. By studying the philosophy, people will eventually learn the knowledge of things in reality and through this the knowledge of the divinity of God and his unity. People will also learn about human virtue. Throughout of Al-Kindi’s many treatises, he emphasizes the importance of the intellect and contrasts it with