ISLAMIC MATHEMATICS

What was the House of Wisdom and where was it established?

• A. A library in Rome

• B. A center for translation and research in Baghdad

• D. A monastery in Spain

• C. A school in Athens

Who was the early Director of the House of Wisdom in the 9th Century?

• B. Muhammad Al-Karaji

• D. Thabit ibn Qurra

• C. Nasir Al-Din Al-Tusi

• A. Al-Khwarizmi

What was Al-Khwarizmi's most important contribution to mathematics?

• D. The discovery of the binomial theorem

• C. The advocacy of the Hindu numerical system

• B. The formulation of the law of sines

• A. The theory of algebraic calculus

Who was the 13th Century Persian astronomer who treated trigonometry as a separate mathematical discipline?

• B. Muhammad Al-Karaji

• D. Ibn al-Haytham

• A. Al-Khwarizmi

• C. Nasir Al-Din Al-Tusi

What did Omar Khayyam generalize in the early 12th Century?

• C. Chinese methods for factorization

• D. Persian methods for algebraic notation

• B. Greek methods for solving cubic equations

• A. Indian methods for extracting square roots

Who was the 9th Century Arab mathematician who developed a general formula for amicable numbers?

• D. Abul Hasan al-Uqlidisi

• C. Thabit ibn Qurra

• B. Muhammad Al-Karaji

• A. Al-Khwarizmi

What did the 10th Century Arab mathematician Abul Hasan al-Uqlidisi write the earliest surviving text showing?

• C. The positional use of Arabic numerals

• B. The use of algebraic notation

• A. The use of decimals instead of fractions

• D. The theory of conic sections

Who was the 11th Century Persian mathematician who established the link between algebra and geometry?

• B. Muhammad Al-Karaji

• A. Al-Khwarizmi

• C. Ibn al-Haytham

• D. Ibrahim ibn Sinan

What did the 13th Century Persian Kamal al-Din al-Farisi apply the theory of conic sections to solve?

• A. Optical problems

• B. Factorization problems

• D. Geometric problems

• C. Trigonometric problems

Who was the 13th Century Moroccan mathematician who discovered the first new pair of amicable numbers since ancient times?

• A. Ibn al-Haytham

• B. Ibn al-Banna al-Marrakushi

• C. Al-Khwarizmi

• D. Muhammad Al-Karaji